parent priorities

Urs Hoelzle urs at cs.stanford.edu
Fri Oct 8 16:34:19 UTC 1993


> Any comments on upcoming features for Self? How about the promised
> "The semantics of resend will be simplified in the future." ?

Well, without parent priorities resend becomes very simple since it
always searches upwards starting from the resending method holder.  In
other words, it is very much like Smalltalk's "super" sends except
that it handles dynamic inheritance in the obvious way.

-Urs




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