"jan ziak" <ziakjan at host.sk> writes:

> hi. i would like to ask whether some squeaker has ever seen an object which 
> is capable of copying itself. for example, i have a glass in front of me - 
> certainly an object - but i have never seen any glass copying itself in front 
> of me when i say "copy yourself" to it. 

This usually does not work with the first glass :-)

Material things tend not to be ablec to copy themseleves without much
outside help, but material things are a small minority in the world
and the fact they cannot copy themselves is a big disadvantage.

I don't see why a Smalltalk object would be an inferior object
compared to a glass and Smalltalk objects can in fact copy themselves,
so yes - I have seen one.