Posted by Miso on Apr 24, 2010; 11:43am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Implementing-a-prototype-in-Pharo-tp2063374.html

Hi, I'm trying to creating a concept similar to "prototype" (like prototype-oriented programming) in Pharo. What I want is an object's methodDictionary to be stored in itself. So when I send a message to an instance, Pharo should 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 Pharo.

Thanks
Michael