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

[ungar at mac.com]

Sekhar,

There is a short Onward paper on Ly in the latest SPLASH/OOPSLA, but it doesn't cover the object model.

I was aiming for a simpler model at the expense of expressiveness. Something that would be as easy as possible to learn.

- David


On Dec 28, 2010, at 3:21 AM, Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> C. Ramakrishnan           cramakrishnan at acm.org
> 
> 

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