Haha, I didn't know that. I'll add that in the class comment.
El Fri Feb 27 2015 at 11:23:59 AM, Alejandro Infante <
alejandroinfant...@gmail.com> escribió:
> First of all, the things that you are doing with slots are just amazing. I
> never thought that there were so many cool stuff that could be done with
> them.
>
> Now, two things to point out about the ProcessLocalSlot that probably not
> all know.
>
> 1) The value is stored weakly, an example of this would be:
> obj := MyClass new.
> obj local: Object new.
> obj local. “anObject” <—— Now we see the object
> Smalltalk garbageCollect.
> obj local. “nil” <—— Now we don’t
>
> 2) This variable are stored in a WeakArray in the Process, so massive use
> of them will make the array in the processes start growing a lot and often.
> Use them wisely :)
>
> Again, really cool stuff.
> Thanks Guille!!!
>
> Cheers,
> Alejandro
>
> On Feb 26, 2015, at 10:32 PM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote:
>
> Very very nice!
>
> This is really cool.
>
> Doru
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu>
> wrote:
>
>> *Very* nice !
>>
>> > On 26 Feb 2015, at 18:55, Guillermo Polito <guillermopol...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > So I added an example of ProcessLocalSlot (like a thread local from
>> other languages) using the existing ProcessLocalVariable. A variable has
>> different values depending on the process the code is executing.
>> >
>> > Example of usage:
>> >
>> > Object subclass: #TestLocal
>> > slots: { #local => ProcessLocalSlot }
>> > classVariables: { }
>> > category: 'SlotTestGuille'.
>> >
>> > object := TestLocal new.
>> > object local: 55.
>> > object local.
>> >
>> > [ valueInOtherProcess := object local ] fork.
>> >
>> > valueInOtherProcess. "=> nil"
>> >
>> > [ object local: 'String'.
>> > valueInOtherProcess := object local ] fork.
>> >
>> > valueInOtherProcess. "=> 'String'"
>> > object local "=> 55"
>> >
>> > Code in issue:
>> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/15004/Add-ProcessLocalSlot
>> >
>> > Guille
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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