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self species new
- To: <heh>
- Subject: self species new
- From: Eric Dean Tribble <tribble>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 89 21:55:03 PST
- Cc: <xtech>, <dean>, <mark>
- In-reply-to: <Hugh>,21 PST <8911162319.AA06150@xanadu>
The 'species' methods allow a class to specify which abstraction it
claims to be. Thus, sending a species copy message to a byteSymbol
will create a new string, not a new byteSymbol. It's a hack.
I'm not sure what I think about implementing a copy method, or a
convention for making other instances of the same class.
dean