[Moose-dev] Wide classes for VW

As ESUG was so inspiring, I could not resist some VW hacking on the train home... If you browse to WideClass and WideClassTest on SCG Store, there is a simple implementation of wide classes. As we have tons of empty inst vars in moose models, that might help us to save some megas on large case studies. How to use it? Sending #wide:put: to any object will install an instance var and accessors on the receiver instance. o := Object new. o wide: #foo put: 4. o foo and even better, if you implement #foo and #foo: as follows foo ^nil foo: arg self wide: #foo put: arg upon first execution of #foo: the foo inst var is installed and both methods get properly overriden with simple accessors. There is no DNU hack anywhere! Hope you have some fun playing around with it! cheers, AA