Re: Objects, methods, attributes, properties, and other related frobnitzes

[Dan Sugalski]

At 8:39 PM +0100 2/3/03, Jerome Quelin wrote:

Dan Sugalski wrote:

 *) Property: A named thing attached to an object. Properties are
 global to the object and public--i.e. there's no implicit hiding,
 namespaces, or whatnot. There can be only one foo property on an
 object, for example

[...]

 The interpreter must handle class hierarchy stuff (parent class,
 interfaces inherited) so method caches can be invalidated as need be
 for class structure changes

What about property inheritance?

Properties can't get inherited. Properties are runtime additions tacked on individual objects, and since we're not doing a template inheritance system there's no way to inherit the things.
--
Dan

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