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"Alan L. Lovejoy" <alovejoy@concentric.net> wrote

>Self stores methods in slots of the object itself--directly mapping
>an object to its behavior.  Smalltalk stores methods in the class...

Anyone agree with me that the Self approach is conceptually superior?
Note: I am not interested in the pros and cons of the implementation or
the syntax, or the difficulties of managing it, or the dangers of its
abuse. What I am suggesting is, at the conceptual level (i.e., the long
term view), the bottom line is: One of the two is limiting, the other is
not. In Smalltalk, an instance is locked in (unless you go to great
lengths to get around it, and the results can be tragic). In Self, an
instance is free to evolve.