Metaclasses and reflection in smalltalk.
Clark, Tony (1997) Metaclasses and reflection in smalltalk. Technical Report. University of Bradford. . [Monograph]
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Abstract
Many object-oriented programming languages provide reflective features which may be used to control the interpretive mechanism of the language. Often, these features are defined with respect to a golden braid consisting of objects, classes and metaclasses. This paper describes the Smalltalk golden braid and generalize it for multiple inheritance. Multiple inheritance leads to choices between many different inheritance strategies. The reflective features of Smalltalk cannot affect the basic mechanisms of inheritance and so an arbitrary choice must be made for multiple inheritance. A language is described in which the reflective features of Smalltalk are extended so as to allow programmer defined inheritance strategies.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Technical Report) |
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| Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science > Intelligent Environments group A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science > SensoLab group |
| Item ID: | 6181 |
| Depositing User: | Devika Mohan |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2010 06:54 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2022 03:16 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/6181 |
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