Getting rid of metaclasses (Was: Behaviors vs Modules)

Anthony Hannan ajh18 at cornell.edu
Sun Feb 24 18:40:06 UTC 2002


merlyn at stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
> Anthony> I was leaning towards getting rid of metaclasses.
> 
> Ahh, so you're reinventing "Self".  A useful goal, but you might
> want to study the body of existing literature and implementations
> already. :)

Just one aspect of Self.  We would still have class objects that hold
methods and instance variables names and a single superclass.  They
just wouldn't be directly reachable from globals.  And we wouldn't 
have multiple inheritance via delegated parents.



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