As I was drifting off to sleep last night, this popped into my head. I didn’t feel like getting up to write it down. It was a pleasant surprise that I remembered it when I woke up.

It’s a set of structures for setting up a message passing language that supports single inheritance. Kind of like Smalltalk or Objective-C.

Property

name
value

Method

name
listOfParameterNames
pointerToImplementation // likely a C function

Structure

name
pointerToSuper
listOfProperties
listOfMethods

Message

listOfProperties

##Send A Message

pass pointerToStruct
pass pointerToMessage
if MatchMethod
  Call Method with Parameter of Properties
else
  Send Message to Super

FindProperty

if exist struct.property with same name
  return struct.property
return FindProperty(struct.super, property)

FindMethod

if exist struct.method with same name
  return struct.method
return FindMethod(struct.super, method)

MatchMethod

thisMethod = FindMethod(method)
if thisMethod
  For each message.Property
      if not exist FindProperty(struct, message.property)
          thisMethod = nil
          break
      BindProperty thisMethod, thisProperty
return thisMethod