Is Object bloated?

JOEL SHELLMAN joelhelenshellman at comcast.net
Tue May 27 04:17:56 UTC 2003


I took a look at the Object type today and was startled to see how many
methods there are defined on it. Especially such specialized things as
morphs. Why should the Object class know anything about morphs, SUnit,
skins, and collections?

I assume that nearly everything subclasses from Object, correct? Why is
Object so huge?

And I guess what I'm really asking is... "should" Object be this huge, 
or
has it just become such from poor design or some other reason?

Thanks,

-joel shellman




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