On 8 Jan 2011, at 14:15, Samium Gromoff wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 23:42:23 +0100, Pascal Costanza <p...@p-cos.net> 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.
What exactly would you like to do? There are ways to do such things using the CLOS MOP... Pascal -- Pascal Costanza, mailto:p...@p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net Vrije Universiteit Brussel Software Languages Lab Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium _______________________________________________ pro mailing list pro@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro