[Grace-core] Class Encoding

[Eric Mullen]

The main difference I see is that Andrew's has a notion of extending
objects, while I've kept inheritance solely to classes.

Eric

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 04:43, James Noble <kjx at ecs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
>> This allows for classes to be implemented within the language, while
>> still allowing concatenation (as opposed to delegation) as the method
>> for inheritance (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=219264, cited
>> by Andrew Black on the wiki).
>
> Andrew
>
>> This is a lot shorter than your encoding, seems simpler, needs no hidden methods, and works for const fields.
>
> ahh, I'm going to agree with both of you - Andrew's encoding is simpler and more general,
> while Eric's may well --- be a better description of a sensible implementation scheme e.g. on the JVM :-)
>
> James