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...
Yesterday, I posted an article 'slot like "transporter = transporter".' asking the meaning of such a slot and how to create such a slot. Today I found the...
x19290 wrote on Mon, 23 May 2005 10:31:54 -0000 ... You have run into the most significant change to the language after that paper was written in 1991. Figure...
Hi ! ... Why was this feature eliminated ? I've always wondered about the reason of this ... I suppose this completely avoids the use of encapsulation in Self...
Perhaps other people in this list will find this paper interesting. I really liked it though I wished they had mentioned the idea of using different viewpoints...
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Here is a reply to an email I received that I thought someone in the list might have a better solution to than mine. -- Jecel ... From: "Jecel Assumpcao Jr" ...
Sorry - my email program messed up my first attempt to send this. ... Perhaps other people in this list will find this paper interesting. I really liked it...
... This sounds like something I need to know/understand but I completely fail to comprehend what it references. What is meant by 'viewpoints' and 'Us', are we...
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... Yes, Jecel, you need to reference these things better because some of us do not follow everything in detail. I feel out of the loop and must be missing...
David P Harris wrote on Sat, 09 Jul 2005 10:10:18 -0700 ... Sorry about that - you are right. Actually all discussion about the Us language that I know of was...
... I don't know where you got the idea that CiteSeer exists no more, it works fine: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/smith96simple.html Thanks for the references, ...
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... Well. I want to hank both of you, these are good papers. In particular, Us seems to strike a chord, seems like an elegant extension to object programming...
Hi, there ! ... I don't understand why you need a mirror object in order to add/delete/modify(?) methods or attributes (I suppose you need the same trick for...
... It isn't a performance issue at all, but rather a matter of good object oriented design. The paper I mentioned last month goes into details about why...
Hi, Jecel ! Thank you for your answer. ... I've browsed the article and I've also read your answer. Though there isn't anything wrong in Mirrors for me, I am...
Baltasar, ... I have adopted a different solution for Neo Smalltalk, so I can certainly understand that no everybody likes this solution. ... In Self you can...
... Placing all of the mirror slots into a generic "Object" object also introduces the possibility of name collision should one desire to add additional ...
... In addition, by putting copying in the domain, one makes it easier to override the copying behavior. It is rare that an object designer would want to ...
Toby Ovod-Everett wrote on Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:45:02 -0800 ... This is a very good point. ... Yes, and a similar argument can be made for putting "printString"...
Baltasar, ... Just the "reflection is a special viewpoint" approach suggested in the Us paper (still available online, as Reinout Heeck kindly corrected me ...
Hi all, has anyone recently compiled Self for Windows? gcc 2.x seems to be no longer available at Cygwin. What about gcc 3? Apple is using gcc 3 for their...
Gordon, ... I haven't tried it. Apple is using gcc 4 as the default in Tiger and this has caused some problems for language implementations due to some change...
Two interesting papers were mentioned today in the Smalltalk blogs (as seen in http://planet.smalltalk.org/): "Attack of the Clones" by James Noble and Brian...
