Title
A module mechanism for constraints in Smalltalk
Abstract
ThingLab II, a rewrite of ThingLab, provides two representations of objects: fully-exposed and interpreted Things, or hidden and compiled Modules. Both representations provide the full power of the ThingLab II constraint hierarchy (an ordering of constraint preferences), and both can be manipulated by the graphical user-interface. This paper briefly describes Modules and their environmental support in ThingLab II. It also describes the process by which the ModuleCompiler translates a collection of objects (a ThingLab II Thing) into a single object with compiled and optimized Smalltalk-80 methods (a Module).
Year
DOI
Venue
1989
10.1145/74877.74918
OOPSLA
Keywords
Field
DocType
graphic user interface
Programming language,Computer science,Smalltalk,Theoretical computer science,Hierarchy
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
10
0362-1340
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-89791-333-7
10
2.81
References 
Authors
12
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bjørn N. Freeman-Benson134154.15