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Le 20 août 2024 à 09:15, Rene Paul Mages (ramix) <pharo@rmages.com> a écrit :

Dear Pharo community,

At the beginning of this 2012-document :

https://inria.hal.science/hal-01879346/document

we can read the following sentence (page 4) :

"Objects all the way down"

Please what is the meaning (in this context) of the adjective "down" ?

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I think of this as a reference to the phrase “Turtles all the way down.” This is an allusion to the idea that the world is a dome-shaped turtle that stands on another turtle that stands on another turtle. How far? “Why, it is turtles all the way down.” In this theory, “down” is not toward the center of a sphere, but has an absolute direction and implies invinite recursion. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down. The idea is that Smalltalk is pure objects, made up of objects, made up of objects. How far? “Objects, all the way down.” Here “down” implies infinite recursion. James Foster

On Aug 20, 2024, at 12:15 AM, Rene Paul Mages (ramix) <pharo@rmages.com> wrote:

Dear Pharo community,

At the beginning of this 2012-document :

https://inria.hal.science/hal-01879346/document

we can read the following sentence (page 4) :

"Objects all the way down"

Please what is the meaning (in this context) of the adjective "down" ?

-- All the best Rene Paul Mages (ramix) GnuPG key : 0x9840A6F7 https://sites.google.com/view/les-logiciels-libres/pharo https://sites.google.com/view/renepaulmages/propriete-intellectuelle https://twitter.com/RenePaulMages