Re: The Foundation of OO (XDb)

> "The Self language doesn't have any classes. When we want a new
> object, we find an existing one and copy it. We can then change the
> copy, safe in the knowledge that we have not affected anything
> else."
>
> But note that this means that Self _rejects_ the notion of "classes."
> It being an object-oriented system, that means that "classes" cannot
> be an intrinsic thing to OO.

For the freedom of making isolated copies of an object, the loss of property and method inheritance seems costly in the general case, but may be advantages in certain circumstances, i think. Received on Fri Jun 14 2002 - 07:13:26 CEST