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Programming with explicit metaclasses in Smalltalk-80

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J.-P. Briot,

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 24, Issue 10

Pages 419 - 431

https://doi.org/10.1145/74878.74921

Published: 01 September 1989 Publication History

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This paper discusses the introduction of explicit metaclasses á la ObjVlisp into the Smalltalk-80 language. The rigidity of Smalltalk metaclass architecture motivated this work. We decided to implement the ObjVlisp model into the standard Smalltalk-80 system. The resulting combination defines the Classtalk platform. This platform provides a full-size environment to experiment with class-oriented programming by combining implicit metaclasses á la Smalltalk and explicit metaclasses á la ObjVlisp. Obviously, these experiments are not limited to the Smalltalk world and will be useful to understand and practice the metaclass concept advocated by modern object-oriented languages such as ObjVlisp and CLOS.

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 24, Issue 10

Special issue: Proceedings of the 1989 ACM OOPSLA conference on object-oriented programming

Oct. 1989

446 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/74878

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OOPSLA '89: Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
September 1989
528 pages
ISBN:0897913337
DOI:10.1145/74877
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