Re: Is really everything a cell?

["Kosta Welke" <kosta@fillibach.de>]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:03:13 +0100, Ola Bini <ola.bini@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry, I wanted to send this to the mailing list, but sent it to Ola by  
accident first. Anyway, here is his reply.

> Kosta Welke wrote:
> > I just wanted to ask: Is really everything a cell?

> Well, no, not everything is a cell. Some kind of data is implemented as  
> opaque extra-data attached to an object. That's how the Ioke Lists,  
> Sets, Dicts and so on works. That is exactly for the reason you mention.  
> You could implement all of those using some kind of namrdpacing  
> mechanism, but it's kinda ugly. I decided to use the opaque data path,  
> for primitive values.

Ok, cool. Gonna look into that. Thanks for you quick answer :)

Cheers,
Kosta