Retrofitting objcaps

Michael van der Gulik mikevdg at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 23:41:35 UTC 2006


On 10/19/06, Matej Kosik <kosik at fiit.stuba.sk> wrote:
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> Hi Michael
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> Michael van der Gulik wrote:
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> > On 18 Oct 2006 19:36:02 -0400, *Lex Spoon* <lex at cc.gatech.edu
> > <mailto:lex at cc.gatech.edu>> wrote:
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> >     Perhaps we should go all the way, though, and explore nested
> classes.
> >     The only issue there is that it is a major change.  Implementing it
> in
> >     the language is not a big deal, but updating all the browsers and
> >     debuggers and so on looks like a lot of work, especially if you try
> to
> >     achieve anything like Smalltalk's level of tool quality.  Still,
> maybe
> >     you have to go this far if you want to take the hard line on lexical
> >     scope and get a usable, security-sensible system.
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> >
> > Nested classes? What do you mean? Are you talking about nested
> > Namespaces (org.squeak.kernel.numbers.SmallInteger)?
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> Have you read papers about E? Have you read Mark Miller's dissertation?
> http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/index.html


His dissertation does not contain the phrase "nested class". I've just
searched through it.

Michael.
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