> Just wanted to clarify the naming: what you call Attributes are not the > same > as what Berin calls Attributes. Your Attributes are like my Fields.
Yes, I think so. Imagine a class "Foo" with an instance variable "bar". In the MetaModel the MetaClass Foo would have an (Meta)Attribute that has the name "bar". This "bar" can have properties/extensions/attributes. What do you prefer? > > > BTW, the original SmallTalk (arguably the first OO language) did not > have > > > the notion of inheritance. Not that we want to go back to those > times. > > > > Oops. I am quite sure it has. But it allows to add methods > > on the fly. > I was talking about the "orignial" SmallTalk. Inheritance was absent from > either SmallTalk-72 or SmallTalk-74. It was introduced in SmallTalk-76. Oh, I did not know that. I just know Smalltalk80. (I have written a minimal smalltalk system as a project in university). Victor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
