Issues about delegation

[Mike Austin]

--- In self-interest at yahoogroups.com, Steve Dekorte <steve at d...> 
wrote:
> 
> On Nov 5, 2003, at 9:57 PM, James McCartney wrote:
> > Then how would you mutate a field in the parent if it always
> > creates a field in the 'instance'?
> 
> One way is to reference the parent:
> 
> self proto someValue = 1
> 
> If you need to always reference a particular parent, then it might
> be best to add a slot with a reference to that parent:
> 
> Foo init = method(
>    self foo = self
> )
> ...
> 
> Bar = Foo clone
> Bar doStuff = method(
>    self foo value = 1
> )
> 
> -- Steve

Exactly :)

-- Mike