Caper needs Self Help
Paul Chapman
paul at igblan.free-online.co.uk
Tue Nov 18 13:35:48 UTC 2003
My other message today reveals that I've still been unable to get
Self running under Cygwin. So here are a couple of questions about
Self the answers to which would help me with Caper's semantics.
(1) Is there any use for an inline object-with-code? It seems to me
that there isn't, because there is no selector associated with such
an object, and therefore it's rather difficult to invoke the code.
(2) Conversely, what happens if a keyword slot contains an object-
without-code? I assume that accessing the object in such a slot by
sending a keyword message to its container would return (a copy of)
the object itself with the parameter slots filled in. Is that right?
I'm trying to work out what the deep meaning of Self's objects-with-
and-without-code is (cf Smalltalk's separation of methods and
instance variables into two namespaces), in order to find the best
way for Caper to distinguish between "values" (evaled at definition)
and "methods" (evaled at invocation) in fields.
Thanks to anyone who can help.
Cheers, Paul
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