On Aug 13, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Noury Bouraqadi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> -Why new methods are compiled from the ones of traits? I remember that in the
> first implementation, when a trait was used by a class, new entries were
> introduced to the methodDict where the values are the compiled methods from
> the trait. Currently, a new compiled method is introduced with the exact code
> of the on from the trait. Why?
>
Because you need to be able to somehow find the class and trait of a
CompiledMethod. And that is encoded in it's literal array.
The old implemention, you got random answers (depending on what happend to be
found finst by #who).
Compiling new methods makes it much cleaner.
Marcus
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