[self-interest] Finding out clones and prototypes

[David Ungar]

Oscar,

Look at the creatorSlotHint stuff in object mirrors.
It may do the sort of thing you want.
It's how the environment can say "a point".

Strictly speaking, there isn't supposed to be observable relationship 
between an object and what it was cloned from
in Self.

- David


On Jul 12, 2004, at 2:28 AM, oscar_lopez_p wrote:

> Hi,
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> I'm writing a rule-based inference engine in SELF, and some
> implementation issues have popped out:
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> Is there a fast way to get a reference to all the clones made from an
> object?. Something like executing `aClass allInstances' in Smalltalk.
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> Also, is it possible to, given an arbitrary object, find out the
> prototype it was cloned from (or if it is itself a prototype) ?.
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> Thanks a LOT,
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> Oscar
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