Squeak (ST80) syntax

Travis Griggs tgriggs at keyww.com
Mon Feb 21 22:21:28 UTC 2000


Stefan Matthias Aust wrote:

> At 01:26 17.02.00 +0000, Travis Griggs wrote:
>
> >When I did this stuff, it was somewhat rough. I remember being a little
> >perplexed about how to deal with this, because some behind the scenes
> >stuff got kind of funky. Metaclass for example got turned into KindOfKind.
> >And kindOfKind was what one had to send to get the class when on the class
> >side. OTOH, one of the things that got brought home to me during these
> >explorations was why people get excited about classeless OO systems. In a
> >prototype
> >based system the single dimensional interpretation of kind becomes a
> >little more tractible.
>
> I like the concreteness of what Travis' did - even if it simply was a
> renaming.  For this simple model, I would like to suggest to ignore meta
> classes (KindOfKinds).  IMHO meta classes are too abstract and I'd like to
> replace them in this context with a Factory.
>
> So if you have a Car, you can create a CarFactory (a kind of Factory) and
> ask it to built car things.

Hey, I like that!

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Travis Griggs (a.k.a. Lord of the Fries)
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