Oddballs and clonability

[Brian Rice]

On Oct 6, 2004, at 3:37 PM, Pupeno wrote:

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> I'm reading the section in 'Oddballs' in the tutorial at
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/kodama/x361.html
> So... Oddballs are objects that are not clonable (or shouldn't be at 
> least).
> The tutorial says it as 'The objects that cannot be cloned are called
> oddballs, after the name of the prototype which implements the 
> impossibility
> to clone.'.
> But at the end of that same section, another fact is explained: The 
> clone
> messages is available and it makes a clone that "doesn't work as 
> expected".
> So, are oddballs clonable or not ?

This was already covered in a previous email to Nicolas - the traits 
hierarchy leads to Root traits via Traits traits, and slot-based 
inheritance (delegation) is not sufficient to distinguish that that 
clone method does not apply to the oddball.

The fix for this is to fix inheritance. We'll let you know when that 
happens.

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Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
http://tunes.org/~water/
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