Help for beginners (was Re: Request for Comment: MethodAnnotations for 3.9alpha)

Marcus Denker denker at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Aug 31 09:46:53 UTC 2005


Am 31.08.2005 um 11:33 schrieb Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene:

> Julian Fitzell puso en su mail :
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>> Yup, and it certainly doesn't use single inheritance. :)
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>> Julian
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> Squeak descend of ST 80  ?
> Read http://www.laputan.org/pub/papers/MI-Borning-Ingalls.PDF
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Yes. So what? Apparently the issue of single inheritance was regarded
of one of the things in need to be improved in Smalltalk even back then.

Traits are exacly this improvement. They bring all the good things of MI
without many of the negative effects.

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> But as the old publicity said "I think different".
> I want Smalltalk , not Tweak, not Croquet, not Self, not Objetive -  
> C, etc
>

Then maybe you should use some old version of Squeak (e.g. 1.03) and  
be happy?

     Marcus



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