Re:What is Nix and why you should try it
by terminalcommand on Monday October 16, 2017 @02:04AM
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I've looked into it a bit. Visualworks smalltalk documentation gave me an idea[1].
In Smalltalk everything is an object, that is including numbers, characters etc. The standar method-lookup searches from the innermost class methods to the outermost class methods.
The method finder could simply iteratively go through all applicable methods that return the class requested and match results.
In Smalltalk everything is an object, that is including numbers, characters etc. The standar method-lookup searches from the innermost class methods to the outermost class methods.
The method finder could simply iteratively go through all applicable methods that return the class requested and match results.
[1]: http://esug.org/data/Old/vw-tutorials/vw25/vw25ug.pdf (page 42 method-lookup)