Re: Class instantiation and creation

2003-06-09 Thread Gopal V
If memory serves me right, Dan Sugalski wrote: > It's possible to just go ahead and do it *all* at runtime, and have > no compile time component at all--just a series of "newclass, > addparent, addattribute" ops, assuming those are the op names we go > with. Classes just get created at code init

Re: Class instantiation and creation

2003-06-09 Thread Matt Fowles
Dan Sugalski wrote: The issue is metadata. How do you declare a class' inheritance hierarchy, its interfaces, its attributes, and its type? (At the very least, there's probably more) I can see the following . 1) A class subclasses a single parent. 2) A class subclasses a single parent and adds

Re: Class instantiation and creation

2003-06-09 Thread Mark A. Biggar
Dan Sugalski wrote: Well, we can make objects and we can call methods on objects (at least the interface is specified, if not actually implemented) but actually building classes to make objects out of is still unspecified. So, time to remedy that, after which I hope we can build at least a simpl