Craig, the easiest thing would be to give me a call 415 336 2618.

- Dave

PS: I think of the Self environment as supporting another language, slightly bigger than the VM's (but I bet you know this!).

At 1:31 PM 11/27/95, Craig Chambers wrote:

I'm doing a comparison of different languages' support for inheriting instance variables, overriding methods with instance variables, and vice versa. Self's computational core doesn't do "inheritance" of slots, but instead shares them using a delegation-like mechanism. But the Self environment does support some notion of copy-down slots, right? Where can I find out the exact semantics of copy-down? Is there a standard set of rules for what happens if a method slot overrides a copy-down data slot? Or is this just up to the programmer when they set up their module annotations?

Thanks for the info.

-- Craig Chambers

-- Dave