replacing the class of an instance
Bill Janssen
janssen at parc.xerox.com
Fri Sep 24 17:17:21 EDT 1999
Excerpts from direct: 24-Sep-99 Re: replacing the class of .. David
Ascher at ski.org (743*)
> you may be able to rip out the guts (aka the
> methods and class attributes) of the class that the instances all share
> and squeeze in the new class as a base class of the original class. That
> would avoid having to deal with circular references.
Ah, just the kind of trick I like. That would avoid the need to keep a
list of all the instances, and the resultant GC problems that would
cause.
Bill
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