Protypes and Self and Squeak (was RE: Browsers)

Stephen Pair spair at advantive.com
Fri Mar 19 02:11:18 UTC 1999


I too am very curious...can anyone describe what an "object browser" might
look like?  Did Self have such a thing (it must have).  Also, when you add
methods, what happens to the source?

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Smet [mailto:peter.smet at flinders.edu.au]
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 8:40 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Protypes and Self and Squeak (was RE: Browsers)
>
>
> I am very interested in playing with these prototypes.
> I would like to know how prototypes delegate to
> 'super'. Do they have a reference to the
> object they were cloned from like self prototypes (parent?).
>
> for eg, a prototype might want its initialize method to be:
> initialize
>     parent initialize.
>     this := that etc.
>
> Does the prototype handle calls to super in the expected
> manner??
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Ingalls <DanI at wdi.disney.com>
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 1:55 AM
> Subject: Re: Protypes and Self and Squeak (was RE: Browsers)
>
>
> >Jochen Schneider <josch at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De> wrote...
> >>Hans-Martin Mosner has made a "class-less subsystem in Squeak",
> check out
> >>
> >> http://www.heeg.de/~hmm/squeak/System-Prototypes.st
> >>
> >>It's really neat how his extension fits into the Metaclass hierarchy.
> >
> >This is the experiment I have been saying someone should do for
> the last 20
> years!
> >
> >Bravo, Hans-Martin!
> >
> > - Dan
> >
> >
> >
>





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