Quote: Smalltalk accessed class variables and methods through the instance variable of the class' metaobject

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[In Smalltalk] accessing a class variable is actually done … [class'] metaobject, and the metaobject is syntactically explicit. Similarly, invoking a … the metaobject.   Google-1   Google-2

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