vaguely bootstrap things?

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/bos-meta-class.sh b/bos-meta-class.sh
index 4884d40..ec3c03e 100644
--- a/bos-meta-class.sh
+++ b/bos-meta-class.sh
@@ -103,17 +103,42 @@ function bos/meta/class/find-method-into() {
 # that the class that this metaclass describe, actuall has that
 # attribute
 function bos/meta/class/get-attribute-by-name-into() {
-    local -A bos_meta_class_attrs
+    local -n bos_meta_class_get_attribute_result="$1"
+    local bos_meta_class_attrs_name
 
     # very manual method call, because I'm not sure I can make this
     # work otherwise
 
+    local attribute_type='assoc'
     local attribute_name='class-attributes'
     local associated_class='bos/meta/class'
 
-    bos/meta/attribute/store-for-into bos_meta_class_attrs "$self"
+    bos/meta/attribute/store-for-into bos_meta_class_attrs_name "$self"
 
-    return "${bos_meta_class_attrs[$1]}"
+    local -n bos_meta_class_attrs="$bos_meta_class_attrs_name"
+
+    bos_meta_class_get_attribute_result="${bos_meta_class_attrs[$1]}"
+
+    return 0
+}
+
+function bos/meta/class/set-attribute-by-name() {
+    local bos_meta_class_attrs_name
+
+    # very manual method call, because I'm not sure I can make this
+    # work otherwise
+
+    local attribute_type='assoc'
+    local attribute_name='class-attributes'
+    local associated_class='bos/meta/class'
+
+    bos/meta/attribute/store-for-into bos_meta_class_attrs_name "$self"
+
+    local -n bos_meta_class_attrs="$bos_meta_class_attrs_name"
+
+    bos_meta_class_attrs["$1"]="$2"
+
+    return 0
 }
 
 
@@ -201,11 +226,3 @@ function bos/meta/class/create-object-into() {
 function bos/meta/class() {
     bos-dispatch/invoke bos/meta/class 0 "$@"
 }
-
-declare bos_meta_class_meta_class_instance
-bos/meta/class/create-object-into bos_meta_class_meta_class_instance bos/meta/class
-bos-meta/set-metaclass-instance-for bos/meta/class "$bos_meta_class_meta_class_instance"
-
-$bos_meta_class_meta_class_instance make-mro-for bos/meta/class
-
-unset bos_meta_class_meta_class_instance