Metaclassing

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Dec 6 09:38:59 UTC 2002


Andreas

I do not know if this could interest you but in my JOOP paper 
(available on my web page).
I show how to use behavior instances to do prototypes and messages 
passing control.

Stef


On vendredi, décembre 6, 2002, at 02:28  am, Craig Latta wrote:

>
> Hi Andreas--
>
>> ...it drives me nuts just thinking about the fact that a subclass of
>> Metaclass would also be an instance of Metaclass...
>
> 	No, a subclass of Metaclass would be *the instance of an instance* of
> Metaclass. A subclass of *Class* is also an instance of Metaclass. :)
>
> 	I've done some related work (lightweight classes, prototypes, and
> such), but I don't recall ever killing the system (I was probably just
> lucky :). I'd be happy to help (e.g., do you have any more specific
> questions?).
>
>
> -C
>
> --
> Craig Latta
> improvisational musical informaticist
> craig at netjam.org
> www.netjam.org/resume
> Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]
>
>
Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
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  might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes





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