Perl 6
SMOP Default Metaclass: Revision 5
This is the default metaclass implementation that will be used by Object. It is a lowlevel implementation that implements the [SMOP OO API] HOW part by consulting the REPR API of the given object.
The metaclass is always used just as a responder interface, so there's no much point in having a instance of it. The default is available as the SMOP__MetaClass__Default symbol.
The "metaclass instance" is understood as the use of the metaclass with some object as invocant. It is representation-independent as it uses the REPR API to access the object. The [SMOP p6opaque Implementation] supports MetaClass definition, and will use it to dispatch the meta calls, and will ask it how to dispatch normal methods.
^ Default MetaClass behaviour
This is a C3 MI dispatcher that support multi method dispatch and that do the failback to sub dispatch when no method is found.
The metaclass is always used just as a responder interface, so there's no much point in having a instance of it. The default is available as the SMOP__MetaClass__Default symbol.
The "metaclass instance" is understood as the use of the metaclass with some object as invocant. It is representation-independent as it uses the REPR API to access the object. The [SMOP p6opaque Implementation] supports MetaClass definition, and will use it to dispatch the meta calls, and will ask it how to dispatch normal methods.
^ Default MetaClass behaviour
This is a C3 MI dispatcher that support multi method dispatch and that do the failback to sub dispatch when no method is found.
