MOP 2.0 design inflluencing issues

GROOVY-1327 Closures in a derived class can't access package private fields of the base class in the same package.

GROOVY-1528 Binding behave oddly with closures

GROOVY-1646 Inherited method establishing logic needs to be MetaClass aware

GROOVY-1826 Stop requiring exceptions in MetaClass to indicate method/property does not exist

GROOVY-1838 When implementing MOP you cannot intercept core Object methods (equals(), hashCode(), etc.)

GROOVY-2412 Need to access the metaClass of a subclass before receiving the dynamic methods that are added to the superclass

GROOVY-2433 Closure in base class unable to call private methods when invoked from derived class

GROOVY-2635 Can't replace a setProperty method declared in an object with metaclass directives.

GROOVY-3073 Private inheritance bug: Closure accessing private method

GROOVY-3015 Seems like ClosureMetaClass#invokeMethod does not respect the interceptable nature of the owner/delegate

GROOVY-1163 refactor void GroovyObject.setMetaClass() {} to something like Object GroovyObject.become(MetaClass) {}

GROOVY-2768 Add sender of method calls as a parameter to the methods of MetaClass

GROOVY-960 Change the MetaClass methods to not be bean properties

GROOVY-3675 MetaClassImpl invokes call() on binding variable even if it is not a Closure

GROOVY-4032 Ability to persist meta methods