Prothon Prototypes vs Python Classes

[Christian Tismer]

Mark Hahn wrote:

> Mutability is an interesting area.  I just added an unmutable bit in the
> Prothon internal object which makes the read_lock call a no-op and causes a
> write_lock call to throw an exception.  This makes the object
> write-protected and makes the lock code run much faster.
> 
> I did this for internal performance reasons, but after doing it I realize
> that extending it to the Ruby freeze() level would be really good.  Tying
> the freezing in somehow to the bang! methods is also in interesting area of
> research.
> Mark Hahn (Prothon Author)
> 
> P.S. If this belongs in the Prothon list instead of Python, let us know.

Allthough I'm a known Python-addict, I find this very interesting.
Being prototyped instead of class based was one of the features
of JavaScript, which were concidered "deficiencies". Well, I didn't
share this so much, there are many other much worse problems.

I'm eager to learn how a real language develops if it consequently
builds upon prototypes. Especially this one, since it is stackless
by nature. :-)

ciao - chris

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