Yes, you could work WriteBarrier to dynamically generate override
methods in an anonymous subclass.

Also, you might try Googling for "mixins".  I think there was a
Smaltalk impl. of mixins a long time ago..

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Miso <fojtik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm trying to creating a concept similar to "prototype" (like
> prototype-oriented programming) in Squeak. What I want is an object's
> methodDictionary to be stored in itself. So when I send a message to an
> instance, Squeakshould look in the instance's dictionary (as opposed to
> class' dictionary) and call method stored there.
>
> Closest thing I managed to do was create an anonymous class (subclass on my
> custom class) for each instance and return instance of this class, and store
> the anonymous class in the instance so I can work with it. Is there any
> other way to do it, without modifying compiler/VM or writing custom
> compiler? If not, please give some pointers where to look for some
> information about "core" of Squeak.
>
> Thanks
> Michael
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