Message passing between individual and socially acquainted objects in Smalltalk

摘要

This paper reports additions to the commercial, object-oriented language, smaltalk-80 and their incorporation into a knowledge based environment, POISE. These additions are suitable for the purposes of knowledge representation of engineering design. A dynamic, knowledge representation Scheme is supported that allows temporary associations between objects residing in separate, static, hierarchical structures. Message passing between these associated objects is dynamic. Messages are passed, incompletely satisfied, between socially acquainted Objects n order to complete a computation.