[self-interest] Parent Priorities

[David Ungar]

Sounds like a relic to me. Sorry for the confusion.

On Jan 13, 2014, at 6:18 AM, Michael Paap <michael at mpaap.de> wrote:

> Hello SELF-group,
> 
> some weeks ago I did read about "Prioritized Parents" "Parents are 
> Shared Parts of Objects: Inheritance and Encapsulation in SELF".
> 
> Some unsuccessfull tryouts and some searching in the archive of this 
> mailing list later I had to realize, that this feature is no longer 
> supported in current releases of Self. And in "Programming as an 
> Experience" I found some comprehensible arguments for the decision to 
> remove it.
> 
> But... in the handbook (Self Handbook Documentation, Release 2 for Self 
> 4.4) in chapter 8.6 Lookup errors I found the following statement:
> 
> "The lookup found two matching system slots which means the message is 
> ambiguous. The error message also says where the matching slots were 
> found. Ambiguities can often be resolved by changing parent priorities."
> 
> Uuuh?
> 
> May it be, that there is a relict of former times in the handbook? Or 
> did I misunderstand something and the statement means something different?
> 
> Is it possible to change paent priorities, ad if so: How is it done?
> 
> Greetings,
> Michael
> 
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