Re: consistency in Self

[Mario.Wolczko@Eng.Sun.COM (Mario Wolczko)]

Ivan,

Here's an interesting coincidence -- I sent this message within the
group just before you sent yours to self-interest.

   Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 00:32:10 +0800
   From: mario (Mario Wolczko)
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   The VM allows you to create an object which has a parent slot that
   contains a method:
   VM# (| a* = (| x = 3 | self ) |)
   <16>: ( | a* = <a method>. | )
   VM# 16 _AsObject a
   <16>: ( | a* = <a method>. | )
   VM# 16 _AsObject x
   3: ( | ^ parent* = <10>. | )

   It will come as no surprise that ui1 gets very confused by this
   object!  You can't bind keyword and binary slots like this, which
   leads me to suspect that it's a bug and not a feature :-)

The semantics of this are as I would expect: that the method's slots
are inherited, but the method is activated only when a message is sent
naming its slot.

-Mario