[squeak-dev] On class/metaclass coupling

Ralph Johnson johnson at cs.uiuc.edu
Tue Dec 8 14:15:42 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Nicolas Cellier
<nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Beside, if it has several instances, then why insisting on giving a
> name related to a specific instance ?

That is the way it works now.  If you want to give several instances
to a metaclass, you will need to come up with some other way of naming
metaclasses.  But just getting rid of "thisClass" would not require
adding a "name" variable to MetaClass.

-Ralph



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