Ah, this is interesting.  Intercepting a message does have a long
tradition but I was not aware the vibe from South on this one.

  The current stuff in the VM and Squeak side follows the Smalltalk
tradition and provide a meta-features without requiring much
meta-level mind-set.  That's what I like about it.

-- Yoshiki

At Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:51:50 -0300,
Alejandro F. Reimondo wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> As I know, the very first reference and implementation made
>  public for Squeak was mine, based on private developments
>  for other smalltalk platform and implemented in public media
>  as minimal changes to Squeak VM (it was under a name
>  like non-compiledMethods).
> The main idea was based in the fact that methods are objects
>  (as required by reflection features and underlying machinery),
>  and if we use an object of any class to implement behavior
>  it is legal and the responsibility to resolve the understanding
>  of the message (as part of the contract assumed when message
>  was received) if for that object...
> That kind of reasoning was discused many times in
>  Smalltalking list (www.smalltalking.net), talks about Object
>  Ambiences and before, in regional meetings (in Latin America)
>  related with Object Technology, looong time ago (+15years)
> In a decade++ we have reflected in other topics of interest
>  based on the concept that smalltalk change (contents)
>  without loosing identity; so we are still naming Smalltalk to
>  media that reveal us evolution, preserving it's identity
>  (... name).
> As the ideas and implementation was made public without
>  any copyright conditions there was people that has taken the
>  idea and implementation as sources for inspiration without
>  mention the origins.
> Hope this bits of history are useful to draw one path
>  of the set of histories related with this "technique",
> Ale.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Yoshiki Ohshima" <yoshiki at vpri.org>
> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" 
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 7:25 PM
> Subject: [squeak-dev] History of ObjectsAsMethods?
> 
> 
> >  Hello,
> >
> >  I used ObjectsAsMethods feature for something by myself first time
> > yesterday.  It is used as a per-method basis dNU: override but much
> > cleaner.
> >
> >  I chatted with my colleagues about the origin of its idea and
> > implementation.  Does this trace back to an implementation Andreas did
> > 10 years ago, or is this something else came from Europe?
> >
> > -- Yoshiki
> >
> > 
> 
> 
>