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- From: RjB <onomoto@rahul.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Wicked ...
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 05:09:56 GMT
- Organization: Object removeFromSystem
- Message-ID: <4jfrb4$t1g@bug.rahul.net>
- References: <31570B8E.5A12@vmark.com> <AD7EDB45966858C12@mac-sandvik.engr.sgi.com> <315A17CC.7C8F@bnr.ca> <AD801A639668229B21@mac-sandvik.engr.sgi.com>
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- In article <AD801A639668229B21@mac-sandvik.engr.sgi.com>,
- Kent Sandvik <sandvik@sgi.com> wrote:
- >In article <315A17CC.7C8F@bnr.ca>,
- >Andrzej Bieszczad <andrzej@bnr.ca> wrote:
- > >
- > >It sounds really strange if you want to send messages to methods :-)
- >
- >Yep, even more strange when the system responds "method not found" :-).
- >
-
- As I betray my Smalltalk bias: why does it seem strange? If everything
- is an object, why can't a method be? I've found it useful to be able to
- send messages about the nature of the method (for instance, in a browser).
- How else could you know its timstamp, anyway? :)
-
- -rj
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