[pro] Initialization of shared slots

[Samium Gromoff]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 23:42:23 +0100, Pascal Costanza <pc at 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.

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regards,
  Samium Gromoff

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