> Actually, all what SELF has to implement inheritance is a general
> delegation mechanism.  To add this to Smalltalk, all you'd 
> need is to add a
> delegation primitive (I did this once) and to support a list 
> of delegation
> (parent) objects additional to the super class pointer in a class'
> definition.  You could probably also add this, but I didn't 
> dare to change
> the class object format.  My hack was (would be) to replace 
> the super class
> reference with an array and to hack the VM to treat an array 
> of super class
> plus delegations.  

Whow! Sounds really cool.

> However I only tried this in a VM  simulation and never compiled such a
VM.

Feigling, Feigling ;-))

  Andreas