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<body><div>I just tried doing this without using "Subclass me" and it seems to work, as long as I make both objects independently - that is I don't create the second object as a clone of the first. This seems to match what it says in the Self Morphic document:<br></div>
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namespace (other prototypes), not to clones of those objects (instances).
</span></span>"<br></p><div defang_dir="" class="">What are the advantages of using copy down slots over using 'data parents' as described in the "organizing programs without classes" paper? In that paper a second parent is created that holds the data to be inherited and the 'copy' operation in the trait is overridden to copy the data parents. I'm curious why morphic went for the copy down approach vs that.<br></div>
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<div>On Wed, Mar 12, 2014, at 06:00 AM, ardeujho wrote:<br></div>
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I'm doing something wrong. These are the steps I took:<br></div>
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1) copy a new object (| parent*=traits clonable. x. |) <br></div>
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2) Set that as 'myfoo' in globals and set the creator path to 'myfoo'.<br></div>
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3) Do a "Subclass me" on the myfoo object. Use defaults for the prompts.<br></div>
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...the new object appears with the copy down'd 'x' slot...<br></div>
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4) Add a new slot 'y' to 'myfoo'<br></div>
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Here I expected 'y' to appear in my subclassed object but it did not.<br></div>
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This also does not work if I manually create an object and use the copy<br></div>
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down parent annotations. I see the copy down slots but adding a new slot<br></div>
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in the parent doesn't make it appear in the child.<br></div>
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If I add a field to 'set' though I do see it propagate to 'dictionary'.<br></div>
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Is my own created objects missing some annotation to make this work?
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