<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matej Kosik</b> <<a href="mailto:kosik@fiit.stuba.sk">kosik@fiit.stuba.sk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Hi Michael<br><br>Michael van der Gulik wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On 18 Oct 2006 19:36:02 -0400, *Lex Spoon* <<a href="mailto:lex@cc.gatech.edu">lex@cc.gatech.edu
</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:lex@cc.gatech.edu">lex@cc.gatech.edu</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Perhaps we should go all the way, though, and explore nested classes.<br>> The only issue there is that it is a major change. Implementing it in
<br>> the language is not a big deal, but updating all the browsers and<br>> debuggers and so on looks like a lot of work, especially if you try to<br>> achieve anything like Smalltalk's level of tool quality. Still, maybe
<br>> you have to go this far if you want to take the hard line on lexical<br>> scope and get a usable, security-sensible system.<br>><br>><br>> Nested classes? What do you mean? Are you talking about nested
<br>> Namespaces (org.squeak.kernel.numbers.SmallInteger)?<br>><br><br>Have you read papers about E? Have you read Mark Miller's dissertation?<br><a href="http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/index.html">http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/index.html
</a></blockquote><div><br>His dissertation does not contain the phrase "nested class". I've just searched through it.<br></div><br></div>Michael.<br>