the monopoly of classes

Brian T Rice water at tunes.org
Thu May 22 21:29:13 UTC 2003


On Thu, 22 May 2003, jan ziak wrote:

> in smalltalk:
> 1. object must be a class
> 2. class is an object

Let me restate it:
1. Every object must be an instance of a class. Classes describe their
instances.
2. Classes themselves are objects, therefore they also have their own
classes in Smalltalk.

> i do not see any logic behind this. if you do then a would like to know about
> it.

Read a Free Smalltalk Book and see:

http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/FreeBooks.html

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Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
http://tunes.org/~water/



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