[Cuis-dev] Improvement: Italic abstract classes and methods V2

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Ernesto,

Please see the answer I just sent to your original thread.

Thanks,

On 2025-12-05 2:36 AM, Ernesto Ittig via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hey all!
>
>    This is a follow-up on the change set I sent last Saturday.
>
>    I've fixed a preëxisting bug in the Browser where, if a selected class
> was deleted in a different browser, its methods would remain listed and
> cause all sorts of issues. Thanks to Luciano Notarfrancesco for pointing
> this out!
>
>    I've also made some performance improvements. The method I was using
> for determining if a class is abstract was quite inefficient, and by
> caching the results I was able to reduce the time it took by 100x. This
> enabled two interested possibilities:
>
>    The class list is recomputed when a method is compiled. This way you
> can see a class change from abstract to concrete and v.v. when editing
> its methods.
>
>    The caching approach requires storing which messages a class (or any
> of its superclasses) responds with subclassResponsibilty. This enables
> the existence of a "concrete class checklist", such that, when
> subclassing an abstract class, you can see which methods you need to
> override to make it concrete. This is an interesting line to follow in
> the future.
>
>    Hope you like it!
>
> Cheers,
> Ernesto Ittig
>
>
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