Re: [Pharo-dev] IndexedSlots in combination with StatefulTraits

2018-07-18 Thread Reg Krock via Pharo-dev
--- Begin Message --- Hi Damien, Frames and Slots come from the AI world. The terms were defined by Marvin Minsky in his paper "A Framework for Representing Knowledge", Marvin Minsky, MIT-AI Laboratory Memo 306, June, 1974. ( https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Frames/frames.html).

Re: [Pharo-dev] IndexedSlots in combination with StatefulTraits

2018-07-18 Thread Norbert Hartl
> Am 18.07.2018 um 14:39 schrieb Damien Pollet : > > I understand what slots are, but haven't heard of frames in this context… can > you elaborate ? > +1 Norbert > On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 at 13:44, Reg Krock via Pharo-dev > mailto:pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org>> wrote: > The Slot class

Re: [Pharo-dev] IndexedSlots in combination with StatefulTraits

2018-07-18 Thread Damien Pollet
I understand what slots are, but haven't heard of frames in this context… can you elaborate ? On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 at 13:44, Reg Krock via Pharo-dev < pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > The Slot class implementation is fundamentally sound but the larger > constructs surrounding Frames and Slots

Re: [Pharo-dev] IndexedSlots in combination with StatefulTraits

2018-07-18 Thread Reg Krock via Pharo-dev
--- Begin Message --- The Slot class implementation is fundamentally sound but the larger constructs surrounding Frames and Slots still requires extensive thought. I suspect that you will find that many more changes will be discovered as work is done with it. Slots provide the capacity to