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-A complete overview of all meta-operations will be presented near the end of this chapter and can also be found in the [[http://prog.vub.ac.be/amop/at2langref/edu/vub/at/objects/MirrorRoot.html|language reference]].
+A complete overview of all meta-operations will be presented near the end of this chapter.
 ===== Mirages =====
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 ===== The Metaobject Protocol =====
-The Meta-Object Protocol of AmbientTalk can be divided into a series of independent protocols. Whereas the full semantics and signature of the meta-methods can be found in the [[http://prog.vub.ac.be/amop/at2langref/edu/vub/at/objects/Object.html|language reference]], this section provides an overview of the various protocols.
+The Meta-Object Protocol of AmbientTalk can be divided into a series of independent protocols. Whereas the full semantics and signature of the meta-methods can be found in the [[http://prog.vub.ac.be/amop/at2langref/edu/vub/at/objects/MirrorRoot.html|language reference]], this section provides an overview of the various protocols.
 The **Message Passing Protocol** consists of methods to deal with both synchronous and asynchronous message sending. It provides necessary hooks to intercept both the reception of asynchronous messages and the invocation of synchronous messages. Moreover, it provides a hook to intercept asynchronous messages being sent by the object, allowing the object to add additional metadata to the message. The ''invoke'' meta-method illustrated above is an example of a method belonging to this protocol.
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 The **Slot Access and Modification Protocol** consists of operations which allow trapping both dynamic access and modification to slots. For instance, ''o.x'' can be intercepted using the ''invokeField'' meta-method, while ''o.x := 5'' is trapped using ''invoke'' where the selector will equal ''x:=''.
-The **Structural Access Protocol** consists of operations used list all available slots, get access to a first-class slot representation and to add new slots to an existing object. The ''listMethods'' and ''listFields'' meta-methods used in previous examples are elements of this protocol.
+The **Structural Access Protocol** consists of operations used list all available slots, get access to a first-class slot representation and to add new slots to an existing object. The ''listSlots'' meta-method used in previous example is a member of this protocol.
 The **Instantiation Protocol** consists of the ''clone'' and ''newInstance'' methods, which are implictly called when using base-level code of the form ''clone: object'' and ''object.new(@args)'' respectively. In the default implementation, ''newInstance'' calls ''clone()'' to create a clone of the current object, and subsequently invokes the base-level ''init'' method with the supplied arguments on the cloned object.