Dan Sugalski writes:
> At 2:38 PM +0100 2/26/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> >Simplifies compilers:
> >
> > newclass P1, "Foo"
> > addattribute P1, "i"
> > findclass I1, "Foo"
> > new P2, I1
> >
> > classoffset I2, P2
> >
> >In static cases, where P2 is known to be a C<Foo>, attrib #0 ("i") would
> >be always 0. That is, the C<classoffset> opcode can be omitted in that
> >case.
>
> That's a very rare case, honestly, and since arguably every object is
> a subclass of the base object class and people will end up sticking
> attributes and methods into the base object class it's going to
> happen anyway.
And how do we deal with an object already in existence when the base
object gets an attribute added?
Luke
