2008/11/26 Vassili Bykov smalltalkbigot@gmail.com:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Andreas Raab andreas.raab@gmx.de wrote:
It's neither insane nor is an inlining JIT is a strict necessity. Tweak for example uses property dictionaries throughout and although it's slower than I'd like it to be it's certainly acceptable for most situations. Also, doesn't Newspeak use messages for *all* accessors?
Yes, it does, and it's very nice especially considering that classes are mixins, and inst var index base is different in different mixin applications.
I like the idea of hiding the state/storage specific details from eyes of subclasses. It makes irrelevant, in what format or where particular object holds its state. As long as you providing messages to access it, it could be anything.
--Vassili