[e-lang] get/put for Slots

David Hopwood david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Aug 30 10:05:17 CDT 2006


Dean Tribble wrote:
> I'm not sure that it is useful to tempt people into cleverly oveloading
> slots with lists, etc. :-)  Do you have a pattern of usage in mind?  My
> preference would be to have a protocol that highlighted when a slot was
> being accessed via methods since that's a likely source of inobvious
> aliasing.

Mutable slots and mutable arrays both introduce aliasing, so I don't really
see why using similar syntax would make this aliasing inobvious.

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David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>




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