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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