On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 06:41:53PM +0100, Karl Ramberg wrote:
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> Ed Heil wrote:
> > 
> > That's cool.  Is that a Self thing kinda?
> 
> A lot of stuff can be acomplished just by executing
> a piece of code in a workspace. I guess your whole 
> morph could be just that instead of putting it  
> in a initialization method in a subclass. 

Or manually tweaking morphs by means of menus, even...

> You could make a button that execute the workspace code
> when pressed and store your program that way too.

I'm not sure how I'd do this...

> The good thing about using subclasses it that you have 
> some _powerfull_ tools to help you on the way.
> Also the code is stored in the image for easy reuse.

Yep.  The only time it'd be appropriate not to use subclasses, I
suppose, is when what you're producing is a trivial recombination of
existing pieces.  "Plugging" pluggable things.

> One problem with instance programming is that 
> when you delete the instance, it's gone. 
> Remember to save your work.

Yep.  I do *like* the idea of instance programming -- or more
specifically of prototype-based programming.  I've read about Self and
it seems really great (that is, it fits in well with my personal
prejudices about apt ways to represent reality ;).  It's a pity it's
not really being developed anymore and there are no working
free-software implementations...

> If you want to test the etoy scripting tools you 
> probably have to use it in the textual mode because 
> there are no tiles to do http/networking as far as I know.

I'm not too familiar with etoys, yet.  I could stand to read a few
more tutorials on the swiki or wherever before I do much with them. :)

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