Metaclassing

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Mon Dec 9 20:14:16 UTC 2002


Hi Guys,

Just wanted to say thanks for all the pointers and support. I decided
against going into Metaclassing right now so while I am still interested
in this area in general I'll live with a (very reasonable) hack for now.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Stephane Ducasse
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 10:39 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Metaclassing
> 
> 
> 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/
>   "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
>   different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
>   might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes
> 
> 
> 




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