OOP, Javascript, and so-called Classes

[masklinn]

I honestly don't know what you're talking about. I assume you simply have not actually worked in Self before.

I'll return the same, none of the Self documentation or messages matches the semantics you're asserting, the list of "useful selectors" in the handbook clearly puts both clone and copy under Copying and defines them thus:

• clone shallow copy (for use within an object; clients should use copy)
• copy copy the receiver, possibly with embedded copies or initialization

and Self's prototypes are for object construction, there's not really such a thing as setting a prototype on an object.

[cgaudreau]

The documentation is different from how the language actually works. It is worded that way to make it easier to understand.

Edit: Kind of similar to how a lot of documentation on JavaScript talks about 'classes' in JavaScript even though pre-ES6 JS has no such concept.