> > > "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."
> >
> > 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.
>
> Prototype-based languages, such as Self and Cecil, allow property and
> method inheritance.
I guess a copy has a reference back to it class then?
Or maybe our definition of class is different.
Received on Fri Jun 14 2002 - 23:29:24 CDT
