How difficult is multiple inheritance?

Alan Kay alank at wdi.disney.com
Sun Jan 3 04:12:01 UTC 1999


Tom --

Exactly! Their versioning scheme is the best I've seen, and we have been
talking about putting it in Squeak sometime in the future ...

Cheers,

Alan

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At 1:21 AM -0000 1/3/99, Tom Morgan wrote:
>Alan Kay wrote:
>>
>> Folks --
>
>   <snip>
>
>>
>> I have been a big fan of this general approach since Goldstein got it
>> running. There are also a wealth of other terrific ideas in their papers.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alan
>
>Oh boy, are there ever.  I tracked down some of these papers. One
>of the other really good ideas is a versioning mechanism, for almost
>everything.  Versioning usally get done as an after thought.  It
>really needs to be done as part of the plumbing from the start.
>
>   ...Tom M
>
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