why is not having metaclasses a nice feature?

On Jan 24, 2008 5:02 AM, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at free.fr> wrote:

> yes newspeak has some nice features: mixin, no metaclass (I imagine),
> "block structure" not sure how to describe that for objet
> initialization...
>
> On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:36 PM, Michael Haupt wrote:
>
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> > On Jan 22, 2008 6:36 PM, Jason Johnson <jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> So no one knows of a system like this?  There's nothing new in our
> >> field since decades so I'm sure there are papers or an implementation
> >> out there, I just haven't found it yet.
> >
> > reading your posting, I had the impression there might be some
> > relations to Gilad Bracha's work on Newspeak...
> >
> > http://gbracha.blogspot.com/
> >
> > He's got several entries in his blog that describe how Newspeak deals
> > with modularity, classes, dependencies, ... maybe you could give that
> > a try?
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
>
>
>
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