We have a class Halt and the class-side is empty. This seems to be the
right place to hold all the code in the protocols #debugging and
#debuggin-haltonce of Object. With a few renames we could get a really
nice DSL:
Halt now.
Halt if: a = 2.
Halt once.
Lukas
On 28 August 2011 19:47, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 28, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
>
>>
>> 2. Using Object to halt causes bloat, and doesn't buy much (except that's
>> how we've always done it).
>
>
> Back in the days, we were virtually crucified for introducing the Beeper
> class along the
> same reasoning...
>
> The Beeper actually got very depressed due to having his very existance being
> questioned.
>
> "I am just the result of a random refactoring" he was complaining "maybe I
> should just
> just delete myself and everyone will be happy".
>
> (you know, reflection *is* dangerous! There has been a lot of talk to make
> reflection more
> secure... for a reason!).
>
> To cheer him up, I gave him the lead role in a real, peer reviewed Paper:
>
> http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Denk08bMetaContextLNBIP.pdf
>
> The Beeper thus was the first Class to be really "Meta" in the history of
> Objects. What a thrill. In an interview, the Beeper said: "You know, being
> meta is hard
> to decribe... Classes claim to be Meta all the time. But I doubt they ever
> really are Meta. Being
> Meta is special. The whole System looks different when meta!"
>
> ;-)
>
> --
> Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de
>
>
>
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Lukas Renggli
www.lukas-renggli.ch
