Maybe if that class has living instances, you must provide a way to mutate the instances... The easiest way is to create a mutated clone and becomeForward. Nicolas 2011/4/13 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck@gmail.com>:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Dave Mason <dmason@mason-rose.ca> wrote:
From: Â Â Â Â http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292
"We will also investigate support for hotswapping, the capability to modify the structure of classes at run time."
So, yes, they planned to "investigate" a version of become:
How is that phrase related to #become:  ?  Modyfing the structure of a class at runtime has nothing to do with a #become:
The DaVinci Machine
    http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/
has an implementation:
    http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/4/41/DaVinciMachineTalk.pdf
../Dave
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