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...
Pavel, ... Yes, I did find it very interesting indeed. I hope you don't mind me sending a copy of this to the Self list so that other people who might be...
Hi JEcel and Pavel-- Hey, nice! I am confused re the use of [].... as in: ( | parent* = [( | b = [4]. sum = (^ a+b). ifTrue: b1 ifFalse: b2 = ( ^ b1 value ) |...
David P Harris wrote on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:50:26 -0700 ... It took me a little while to figure them out too even though one of the presentations explains...
... Umm, thanks for mentioning this, as I had not know/had forgotten about the magical rule! ... Yes, I am familiar with the Forth use, nice. Seems that this...
... Has anyone figured out how to make the VM and image? I'm not a Squeaker, so I don't know what to do with the .cs files... Do I import them into a running...
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... There are several reasons why I didn't announce this project in Squeak-dev. 1) I want to make some minor modifications in the bytecodes generator etc. 2) I...
Slava Pestov got the error shown in the stack dump in the following page when trying to run Self on Linux: http://paste.lisp.org/display/11688 My impression is...
Self programming language members, You can ask questions on Stanford Discussion Forum http://tiofo.stanford.edu? it is recently cretated for Stanford community...
Hello! I'm Diego, a very beginner in self. Two questions: - Nowadays, has Self multiple inheritance? - If not, why Self lost this feature? Thanks Diego...
Hi, Diego ! ... I think Self has never lost its capabilities for multiple inheritance. All slots ending with a star '*' will be considered parent attributes. ...
Hola Baltasar! Thanx for the answer. ... Could you give me some tip for searching? I'dont understand this point :-(. If Self support multiple inheritance, how...
Hi ! ... You can check the Self web site out for papers (publications section): http://research.sun.com/self/ ... It doesn't have to do, because objects are...
... If you get name clash (two different methods that match the send) you get a traceback. Name clashes can be resolved manually by specifying the path IRC. ...
"J. Baltasar Garcia Perez-Schofield" wrote on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:30:06 +0100 ... This would be a "depth first" search for slots, which as Ian wrote in another...
Hi, Jecel ! Thank you for the info. However, ... So if a "resend" is performed, and all parents are searched ... is a depth lookup run or not ? Maybe a lookup...
... Imagine we have an object like ( | parent* = traits clonable. sharedStuff* = mixins utilities. "just an example - not in Self distribution" moreStuff* =...
Dear Jecel: Thank you again for your explanation. ... Yes, as "super" in Java. ... That's the point. But I suppose that this means that at runtime time, each...
This is the conceptual way it happens. Under the covers the VM generates something quite a bit more efficient. For each method invocation in the system it...
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