[self-interest] have to get this off my heart

[Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan]

2010/12/26 <ungar at mac.com>

> Copy-down is a bit of a different matter. It sort of straddles programming
> time and run time, though only REFLECTIVE run-time.
> Maybe the folks at Vrije have a better way, or maybe Ly, my latest object
> system design is better. (I think so.)
> In Ly, all non-constant slots are copied-down, as part of the language.
>

David,

Could you say something about what prompted this change in Ly with respect
to Self? What made you decide that it is preferable to have all non-constant
slots copied down?

Is there a paper on Ly?

Regards,

Sekhar

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C. Ramakrishnan           cramakrishnan at acm.org
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