In Objects as Modules in Newspeak , Gilad Bracha et al. describe a way to avoid the coupling in inherent constructs found in many OO languages such as a global namespace, "static" stateful variables, globally accessible object constructors, etc.
We describe support for modularity in Newspeak, a new programming language descended from Smalltalk and Self.
Like Self, all computation — even an object’s own access to its internal structure — is performed by invoking methods on objects.
However,...
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