Mirrors ======= :: collection mirror mirrors smallInt mirrors float mirrors vectorish mirrors vector mirrors byteVector mirrors canonicalString mirrors mirror mirrors block mirrors method mirrors blockMethod mirrors activation liveOnes mirrors activation mirrors deadActivation mirrors methodActivation mirrors blockMethodActivation mirrors process mirrors assignment mirrors slots mirrors profiler Mirrors allow programs to examine and manipulate objects. (Mirrors get their name from the fact that a program can use a mirror to examine—that is, reflect upon—itself.) A mirror on an object x is obtained by sending the message ``reflect:`` x to any object that inherits ``defaultBehavior``. The object x is called the mirror’s *reflectee*. A mirror behaves like a keyed collection whose keys are slot names and whose values are mirrors on the contents of slots of the reflectee. A mirror can be queried to discover the number and names of the slots in its reflectee, and which slots are parent slots. A mirror can be used to add and remove slots of its reflectee. Iterating through a mirror enumerates objects representing slots of the reflected object (such facets are called “fake” slots). For example, a method mirror includes fake slots for the method’s byte code and literal vectors and elements of vectors and byteVectors. There is one kind of mirror for each kind of object known to the virtual machine: small integers, floats, canonical strings, object and byte vectors, mirrors, blocks, ordinary and block methods, ordinary and block method activations, processes, profilers, the assignment primitive, and ordinary objects (called “slots” because an ordinary object is just a set of slots). The prototypes for these mirrors are part of the initial Self world that exists before reading in any script files. The file ``init.self`` moves these prototypes to the ``mirrors`` subcategory of the ``prototypes`` category of the ``lobby`` namespace. Because ``mirrors`` is not a parent slot, the names of the mirror prototypes always include the ``“mirrors”`` prefix. Modules: mirror, slot, init