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> Veering OT a bit, do other languages (C for instance) have a designated
> keyword to instantiate a child object the way Lingo has 'new'?

Lisp (Lingo's grand-daddy) has the 'def-object' function which takes the
name of the new object, a parent (or list of parents), and a list of
instance variable / value pairs. def-object creates the object in the
inheritance heirarchy, and def-method binds methods to the object.

Java has a new constructor. In Smalltalk, it is often said said that
everything that you deal with is an object, from a number to an entire
application... 

Luke


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