Metaclassing

Brent Pinkney brent_pinkney at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Dec 6 09:51:21 UTC 2002


Andreas,

Way back in 2002 (2.7 days) I implemented Rivests
et.al's Compatibility model for Squeak.

See
http://squeak.cs.uiuc.edu/mail/squeak/msg00728.html
for how to do it.

NB. Read Rivest's paper on explicit metaclasses:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/400

Alas the site hosting the changes is no more, but the
mail above lays it all out.

The implementation is quite simple - the hard parts is
getting to grips with the circularity.

Changing the file/in file out and browser would be the
other (tedious) task.

IMO explicit metaclasses are good stuff.

Cheers

Brent

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