Hi,
> > Sounds good to me.  In my reading of the TclOO commands this morning I
> > couldn't find any way to get a list of variables associated with a
> > specific class (only all variables associated with an object) ...
> > - Is this something that can be done by the C internals?
> > - Could this be exposed by a "info class variables"?
>  At present, I'm not sure it's a question that makes sense.  IIRC
>  you only declare variables for objects; there's no counterpart
>  to Snit's instance variable declarations.  Any object simply has
>  whatever variables its constructor and methods have declared and
>  set.
Ah ... terminology confusion.

I understood that Will wanted to make "private" variables implicitly 
available to methods.  A "private" variable being an instance/member 
variable associated with the specific type (class) of the instance 
(object). This excludes those member variables of the object that are 
associated with super- or sub-classes, mixins, etc.
>  A reasonable compromise  
>  would be that instance variables declared by a type would be  
>  automatically visible in the methods defined explicitly by that type,  
>  but not elsewhere, i.e., you'd need to explicitly declare them in  
>  subclasses.
>    
So a method my_method of class my_class will have implicit access to 
variables declared by (an object of) class my_class.

So my question was: is it possible to get a list of such variables?  I 
see a way to list all variables declared by an object, but that will 
include super- and sub-classes, mixins, etc.

In order to declare an instance variable one must call "my variable X" 
from within a method (possibly the constructor, but not required as far 
as I can tell).  To know what type that variable was declared by would 
mean that, at the C level, the creation of X by "my variable X" must 
also note the class/type of the calling method.  This could be done 
explicitly (a field in a struct) or implicitly (if a single object 
stores its variables in different namespaces according to the specific 
class/type of the method that declared them).  This information does not 
appear to be available via the Tcl API - is it available at all?

Regards,
Trevor



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