The pointer + descriptor idiom is one of the best ideas in programming, which seems to be underappreciated and underused.
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Yes! Although you're in good company because all the classical OO object systems from Smalltalk onward took that approach.
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Alan Kay's OO metaphysics of objects as opaque message-passing machines is a pretty tragic dead-end in a lot of ways.
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