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Re: The Foundation of OO (XDb)

From: Dave Harris <brangdon_at_cix.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 11:11 +0100 (BST)
Message-ID: <memo.20020616111132.19279A@brangdon.madasafish.com>


jraustin1_at_hotmail.com (James) wrote (abridged):
> > 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?

More or less. There are no classes, but objects can have references to other objects and there-by dynamically inherit methods from them.

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Received on Sun Jun 16 2002 - 05:11:13 CDT

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