[Xotcl] Real value of meta-class
Rick Hedin
rhedin@aquifer.geology.uiuc.edu
Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:51:55 -0600
Greetings.
I worked through the example in the "Meta-Classes" section of the XOTcl
tutorial. The result is the same whether myMetaClass is a metaclass or not.
If you define it
Class myMetaClass
rather than
Class myMetaClass -superclass Class
then
Agent info superclass
gives the same result.
I understand, in theory, that one wants to derive a class from some "more
basic" entity, but so far it seems to me that I can achieve everything I
want to achieve by starting with a class, not a metaclass, and modifying it.
Is there an example where being a metaclass results in different output?
Regards,
Rick