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Modules research

Ways to organize libraries and keeping them orthogonal by altering binding and method dispatch.

Two independently developed modules may have clashing definitions for some shape or behavior so alterations to Smalltalk binding and/or dispatch are needed to have modules with conflicting definitions cooperate in one application.

I very much like the Forth name lookup mechanism where the application code can freely mix vocabularies into a lookup chain.

My general impression is that it is easier to model a resolution to clashing behavior definitions than to clashing shape definitions, #copy and #initialize are troublesome when parts of the shape are unknown to or invisible in the invoking module.

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