... 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...
... Correct except for the "provided the receiver can't satisfy the message" send the whole point of the resend is to skip any slots that the receiver might...
Hello ! ... Mmmm ... note I wrote resend/unqualified messages: as far as I understood, "resend.copy" and "copy" would behave the same but for the lookup in...
Hello, all! As it is currently discussed I want to ask a question about the performance of Self VM. While I haven't done benchmarks, when I've run the Self VM...
J. Baltasar Garcia Perez-Schofield" wrote on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:53:33 +0100 ... Exactly. ... Normally each object is associated with a "map" that represents...
Emir Uner wrote on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:30:59 -0000 ... Running Self on a 277MHz Sun Ultra 5 machine feels more responsive than on a 1GHz eMac even though all...
Hi. Jecel ... Interesting. Thank you for you answer. ... I see. But are these facets "packed" inside the object, or do you have slots pointing to them ? Salud...
Hello I have to write a little paper about self. I haven't programmed anything in Self or Smalltalk yet and only have a little experience in the mainstream...
sanssecours wrote on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:33:02 -0000 ... Could you give a little more information about where you found this example? There are a few things...
... Thanks for your quick response Jecel. It was very helful altough I have to admit that I really don't understand everything you wrote. Maybe the fault are...
So far as I know the '--' is incorrect syntax. It seems to be a mistake in the tutorial, due to a formatting error. ... -- -Ian Woollard Identity cards,...
Rene, ... Correct, but note that this is a code fragment and it doesn't make sense to have this except inside another object definition as part as some method...
I have added a 1987 movie about the Alternate Reality Kit to the list at http://www.smalltalk.org.br/movies/ (where there is also information about the Self...
Thanks Jecel! I am amazed to still meet people after all these years who have seen that (16 minute) video, some have shown it to their students and such, and...
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Folks, Some years ago I bought a SparcServer 20 off eBay to have a machine that would run Self at full speed, and then later I rejoyced that the Power version...
