PIE (was: Getting rid of metaclasses)
Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jecel at merlintec.com
Sun Feb 24 18:53:27 UTC 2002
On Sunday 24 February 2002 19:18, Alan Kay wrote:
> Goldstein and Bobrow eventually found a very interesting way to
> implement these enriched objects: they used Smalltalk instances for
> each role/perspective. So a PIE object could be made from many
> Smalltalk objects.
I suppose they used a flat "perspective space", right? Some other
proposals allow role inheritance, but that easily becomes a big mess.
How do you know which perspective to use at any given time? How do you
switch between them?
Sorry about the questions, but there is essentially nothing online
about PIE. I am trying (http://www.merlintec.com:8080/software/8) to
come up with something similar.
-- Jecel
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