Does Squeak include a generic node class?
Michael S. Klein
mklein at alumni.caltech.edu
Thu Oct 22 20:27:25 UTC 1998
> Actually, nearly all objects are specialized kinds of nodes...
> either they have references to other objects, or they do not,
> either other objects reference them, or not.
Actually, there are no sinks (Objects that don't point to anything)
in the Smalltalk object graph... all objects have a reference to their
class, hidden though it is. Even immediates (SmallIntegers) have an
encoding of bits that points to their class (effectively).
-- Mike Klein
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