On 2013-07-04, at 14:29, Frank Shearar <frank.shea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 July 2013 13:15, Sebastian Tleye <stl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Congrats!! >> This opens more doors to me since i we can have stateful traits now :) > > Do you mean it makes implementing stateful traits _much easier_, or > _possible at all_? I'd be curious to know why, if the latter. > > Having first class slots means being able to implement triggers (and > hence data flow type stuff), so I can see why it'd make it easier. Stateful traits already have been successfully implemented using slots + first class layouts, you can have a look at the implementation in the slot paper: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/archives/papers/Verw11a-OOSPLA11-FlexibleObjectLayouts.pdf
