[pro] AMOP question: When and where is slot-value-using-class called?

[Jean-Claude Beaudoin]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Kenneth Tilton <ken at tiltontec.com> wrote:

> You are puzzliing over undefined behavior, meaning what you have
> discovered:is that implementations are free to go as crazy as, well,
> canines in a dog park.
>

As usual Kenneth you are entertainingly sarcastic almost to a fault.


> This can be excitingly crazy, because the CL standardizers were too
> exhausted to include the MOP in the standard. (They made nice excuses about
> not wanting to inhibit implementers, but dollars to donuts they just ran up
> the white flag in the face of the idea of standardizing something as vast
> in itself as a complete HLL).
>

Musing over this ever since the official publication the CL standard, I am
still not convinced it was a bad and unwise decision.


>
> What were actually trying to build?
>

Just pushing my Sisyphus' rock (aka. MKCL) in a somewhat better direction.
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