Aren't these emails supposed to be going to the moose-dev list? They are all being sent to scg-staff now. Oscar On Sep 3, 2007, at 10:10, Bergel, Alexandre wrote: >> Why touch the compiler, when two simple methods in Object can do >> the same? > > If WideClass is just an optimisation, then I should write my code > as if this mechanism is not present. Moreover, using a kind of > annotation mechanism will make legacy code to benefit from WideClass. > >> >> Also, when lazy inst vars are part of the class def, again we run >> into the limitation that they can not be a package extension. >> This is one of the needs we do have in Moose. > > As far as I understand, an ideal implementation of WC will have to > be in the VM. And this, for the same reason that lazy evaluation > in Haskel is implemented in the VM. > > Alexandre > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > >