[Grace-core] Dialect Design Proposal

[Andrew P. Black]

On 28 Nov 2012, at 3:42, James Noble wrote:

> expect that all "inheritable" objects would need to support a clone method

They do in the current design.

> that method would have to be built in,

Not necessarily.  With enough reflection, it can be programmed in Grace, I think, just as it is in Smalltalk

> So far we've survived without clone, right?

Wrong.  That was the gist of my "how can I program this in Grace" message.   Your answer was to wrap one more layer of object around everything just to make it inheritable.  I would like to avoid that.

	Andrew


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