Re: Language features: mixins

On Nov 30, 2004, at 2:03 PM, Edward L. Gow wrote:

>
> I'm puzzled about importObject(). As Patrick described, it seems to
> behave like the 1.5 "import static". It makes the methods and 
> attributes
> of an instance available without requiring a qualifying reference to 
> the
> instance in the scope to which the importObject() applies. This does 
> not
> seem like mixins to me.

You're right that currently the importObject() functionality does not 
make the imported members visible outside the scope of the object.  If 
it were considered useful for scripted objects to do this it could be 
added easily...

After 2.x is finalized we'll put out some proposals for new language 
features and see what the community thinks.


thanks
Pat



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