Reinaldo Silveira will be defending his PhD thesis in a week or so. The title is "DIRETRIZES PARA UMA NOVA METODOLOGIA DE PROJETO DIGITAL" ("Directions for a...
I beg the group to forgive a question from someone with no experience with Self. My question concerns the effects of modifying a Self image while there are...
... Yes, so in a pretty real sense, in fact Self *has* classes. ... Most of the objects in the system inherit their behaviours off a group of objects that are...
Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: Perhaps it would be better to say that Self can have classes whenever you need them. You often don't *need* classes in Self, just...
... When I started using Self graphically, I would always create an empty object like this (| parent* = (| parent* = traits clonable |) |) and then start...
To add $0.02. While Smalltalk uses classes to define shared behavior and structure, Self encourages a model that shares behavior only. The structure of ...
... The above is the straightforward answer to my question. Yes, Self does support the feature I asked about: The change in behavior of the many objects...
... While I really like Self's model of methods inside of objects, that is probably not the best inspiration for a world of pattern matching robots. You might...
... One problem with the prototype multiple dispatch scheme, if I understand it correctly, is that methods become uncollectable garbage unless ALL of their...
... These last few days, I am really busy moving between apartments, and I had written a reply but lost it. For now, I will answer that yes this does seem to...
... I forgot to mention why this last statement holds. Methods and Blocks in Slate are the same kind of object, so creating a quick block literal stored in a...
... The solution that came to my mind was storing the methods and their roles only in the first argument. This seems assymmetrical from a storage point of...
Hello. I have a very sėmple question: does anyone knows why SELF is no longer an official project at Sun Microsystems Laboratories? I can't seem to find the...
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:17:48 -0000, Gustavo Quiroz ... I don't know for sure, but I think that the decision seems to have been that C-like languages are easier...
... I was going to link to some old messages from the previous version of this list but didn't find anything there. Just the same question (with no answers)...
Dear Self-enthusiasts, I am looking for examples of algorithms or recurring software patterns which are self-mutable, or which are greatly simplified/made more...
I just compared my 1Ghz G4 and my dual 2Ghz G5 and the G5 is slower! I presume that the Self compiler is testing for architecture and the G5 is failing? On...
... What does a "send" mean here? Is that a instance variable access or a method activation? On my dual 2.5Ghz G5, Io does 5.4 million instance variable...
... See http://www.gliebe.de/self/index.html for a port to cygwin on Windows. I don't know how viable it is, having only ever used the Linux version (usable...
Did this ever get addressed around /usr/X11R6? I run OS X 10.3.7, downloaded Self 4.2.1 from April 2004, and draged the Demo.snap to SelfDroplet and got the...
answered myself; standard Mac OS X 10.3.7 install does not install X11, To install, goto Apple site: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/ and download /...
This is the title of an interesting 2001 paper by John Aycock (http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~aycock/) The paper's most detailed section is about Self: ...
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:05:24 +0300, Jecel Assumpcao Jr ... Just grab an account, and change it. (Actually you can do it without grabbing an account, but it's...
Ian Woollard wrote on Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:49:55 +0000 ... Ok, I took a quick first pass at this. There was much more wrong than I had noticed on my first...
I send this message to this list because I think it could be of interest as Zero borrows some important properties from Self (such as the lack of classes). If...
Hello. I am very new to Self. I browsed the globals and found a slot like "transporter = transporter." What does it mean? And I tried to add a slot like "x =...
Hello. I am not a native English speaker so please be patient with my English. I read a paper "Organizing Programs Without Classes" and very much interested in...
