[pypy-dev] Re: at some point we will experiment with issues of security, persistence & distribution

[Samuele Pedroni]

Michael Hudson wrote:

>Samuele Pedroni <pedronis at strakt.com> writes:
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>>this talk by Gilad Bracha:
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>>Objects as Software Services, An invited talk at the Dynamic Language
>>Symposium at OOPSLA 2005.
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>>( http://www.bracha.org/oopsla05-dls-talk.pdf )
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>>is an interesting across-the-sprectum take on these or related issues.
>>At least it makes for some interesting thinking.
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>I think I'm lacking some context.  I can't tell if 
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>   "Mirrors act as capabilities for reflection"
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mirrors refers to Self reflection model. In Self and similar model 
normal objects
don't expose reflective operations, instead you create secondary objects,
so called mirrors, through which reflective operations can be performed on
the original object.