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Prototypes and Delegation

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Object-Oriented Graphics

Part of the book series: Symbolic Computation ((1276))

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The model for object-oriented programming has so far relied mainly on that supported in Smalltalk-80 classes, methods, instances and (hierarchical) inheritance. Every object is an instance of a class. The class manages methods and variables for its instances. Classes form a hierarchy that determines how methods are inherited. New instances are generated by the message new sent to the class. An instance can be copied; this returns a duplicate belonging to the same class.

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Wisskirchen, P. (1990). Prototypes and Delegation. In: Object-Oriented Graphics. Symbolic Computation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84247-4_11

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