From: Christoph <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-02-20T06:17:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Name resolution in Ruby

"Alexander Schofield" <pcs3@mailhost.njit.edu> wrote in
....
> If you want to experiment with MOP's, then a prototype-based system is
> exactly what you are looking for.  If you had trouble with Cecil there
> is a Linux port of Self I've been using which seems stable enough:
> http://www.gliebe.de/self/index.html

Thanks for this pointer.

> The concepts are simple enough, just create objects which behave an
> awful lot like classes (and have objects with lots of convenient methods
> for creating those "classes").  This is easier than it sounds with
> prototypes where inheritence is dynamic.

The nice thing about Cecil (over Self) by the way is that that it is text based,
in fact it is relatively easy to read. Also afaik Self does not support multiple
dispatch which is cutting down a lot on my excitement for the language ...


/Christoph