Scoping class extensions: Classboxes

Some languages such as Objective-C, Ruby, Python, Smalltalk can define methods in package while their classes is defined in other packages. This allows one to build powerful layers and extend classes. But this poses the questions of the semantics of such constructs. Classboxes is an experimental solution that scope them dynamically and propose a flat view of the world from the extending package perspective.
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