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[Jecel Mattos de Assumpcao Jr.]

On Fri, 5 May 1995 11:30:18 +0200 rainer@physik3.gwdg.de (Rainer Blome) wrote:
> > [...]
> >    What are good ways to (semi-automatically) group objects into packages
> > of closely-related objects that do not interact as much at all
> > with external objects ? What information must we ask the programmer, must
> > we compute when compiling, must we gather while running, must we forget
> > when freezing, etc ?
> 
> This reference deals with that topic:
> <a href="http://self.stanford.edu/papers/gold.html"> "Sifting out the Gold"</a>

Sorry to disagree, but the "grouping" in this papers is very different
from what we are talking about here ( I think :-). Ole Agesen was just
trying to recreate at the Self level the class-like information that
exists in the VM and compiler ( called maps ). He wouldn't need to
do this if Self's reflection was less limited.

-- Jecel