GNU Smalltalk Library Reference: Behavior

Defined in namespace Smalltalk
Superclass: Object
Category: Language-Implementation: I am the parent class of all "class" type methods. My instances know about the subclass/superclass relationships between classes, contain the description that instances are created from, and hold the method dictionary that’s associated with each class. I provide methods for compiling methods, modifying the class inheritance hierarchy, examining the method dictionary, and iterating over the class hierarchy.

• Behavior-accessing class hierarchy:		(instance)
• Behavior-accessing instances and variables:		(instance)
• Behavior-accessing the method dictionary:		(instance)
• Behavior-built ins:		(instance)
• Behavior-builtin:		(instance)
• Behavior-compilation:		(instance)
• Behavior-compilation (alternative):		(instance)
• Behavior-compiling:		(instance)
• Behavior-compiling methods:		(instance)
• Behavior-creating a class hierarchy:		(instance)
• Behavior-enumerating:		(instance)
• Behavior-evaluating:		(instance)
• Behavior-instance creation:		(instance)
• Behavior-instance variables:		(instance)
• Behavior-method dictionary:		(instance)
• Behavior-parsing class declarations:		(instance)
• Behavior-pluggable behavior (not yet implemented):		(instance)
• Behavior-printing hierarchy:		(instance)
• Behavior-source code:		(instance)
• Behavior-still unclassified:		(instance)
• Behavior-support for lightweight classes:		(instance)
• Behavior-testing functionality:		(instance)
• Behavior-testing the class hierarchy:		(instance)
• Behavior-testing the form of the instances:		(instance)
• Behavior-testing the method dictionary:		(instance)