Re: Object system

[David Given <dg@...>]

Raffaele Salmaso wrote:
[...]
> Yes, you can.
> If you get the instance method, you really get the closure, not the real 
> method. But if you get the class method, this is the real method, no 
> wrapper.

You're absolutely right, of course. Hey, it was late and I was low on caffeine...

Incidentally, it occurs to me that you should be able to optimise things by 
making __call pregenerate all the closures. It ought to be something along the 
lines of:

		__call = function(self, ...)
			tmp = {}
			setmetatable(tmp, klass)
			for i, j in pairs(super) do
				tmp[i] = function (...)
					return j(tmp, unpack(arg))
				end
			end
			if self.init then
				self.init(tmp, unpack(arg))
			end
			return tmp
		end

...although that doesn't take in to account object inheritence.

Would that work? If so, would it speed things up any?

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