On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 23:42:23 +0100, Pascal Costanza <[email protected]> wrote: > There is no real advantage in having shared slots over global special > variables. On top of that, the slot access protocols in the CLOS MOP > also don't work that well in conjunction with shared slots. So it's > better to avoid them. Fortunately, this is the only feature in CLOS that > doesn't make any sense, as far as I can tell.
This is sad, indeed, as shared slots could have been used to associate information with sub-lattice of the class relationship lattice. I have been tempted to do exactly this, multiple times, having, instead, to resort to manual storage of this information. -- regards, Samium Gromoff -- "Actually I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." - Alan Kay (OOPSLA 1997 Keynote) _______________________________________________ pro mailing list [email protected] http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro
