is squeak really object oriented ?

Jecel Assumpcao Jr jecel at merlintec.com
Fri May 23 00:33:13 UTC 2003


On Thursday 22 May 2003 21:20, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> But suppose that
> (1) PluggableTextMorphs treated embedded Morphs as characters, much
>     the way that TeX treats pictures as characters, and
> (2) the compiler treated such a character as an expression, and
> (3) the value of such an expression was the identity of the Morph
>     (so that a Morph would be just another kind of constant).
>
> Then you could have
>     {frog picture} copy; openInWorld; startHopping
>
> Sort of like "create textual references to dropped morphs" but
> without the text.

You have described what I am doing -

  http://www.merlintec.com:8080/software/4

-- Jecel



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