
Proto Inheritance
Slot Assignment
It is crucially important to understand how inheritance deals with assignment to an inherited slot. Assigning to an inherited slot never changes the proto. There are two compelling reasons that the language was designed this way:
- Objects should be independent.
- Protos may be in ROM.
- Objects Should Be Independent
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- Protos May Be in ROM
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- Assignment to Inherited Slots
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An online version of Programming for the Newton using Macintosh, 2nd ed. ©1996, 1994, Julie McKeehan and Neil Rhodes.
Last modified: 1 DEC 1996