copy-down slots
Craig Chambers
chambers at cs.washington.edu
Mon Nov 27 21:31:54 UTC 1995
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
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