This should explain and demonstrate a problem with the setup of metaclasses in OBJREXX 6.00 21 Jul 1997

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• Problem report (as sent per e-mail): pro970826.txt

• The class definitions:

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    /* group 1 - metaclass definitions */
  
  
       :: CLASS META1  SUBCLASS Class
  
       :: CLASS META2  SUBCLASS META1
  
       :: CLASS META3  SUBCLASS META2  METACLASS META1
  
       :: CLASS META4  SUBCLASS META3
  
  
  
    /* group 2 - object class definitions, using metaclasses */
  
  
       :: CLASS A1
  
       :: CLASS B1     MIXINCLASS A1   METACLASS META2
  
       :: CLASS C1     MIXINCLASS B1
  
       :: CLASS D1     MIXINCLASS A1   METACLASS META3
  
       :: CLASS E1     MIXINCLASS D1
  
  
  
    /* group 3 - same as group 2, except subclassing CLASS (i.e. metaclasses) */
  
  
       :: CLASS A1m    SUBCLASS   Class     /* &lq;--- SUBCLASSING ".CLASS" ! */
  
       :: CLASS B1m    MIXINCLASS A1m  METACLASS META2
  
       :: CLASS C1m    MIXINCLASS B1m
  
       :: CLASS D1m    MIXINCLASS A1m  METACLASS META3
  
       :: CLASS E1m    MIXINCLASS D1m
  

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• The program: test_meta.cmd

• The output: test_meta.out.txt

• The HTML formatted results of analyzing the program and inferring the tiling (use the detailed links for navigating to the detailed tiling of classes): HTML_Summary.html

Date: 1997-08-26