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- From: Jan@Bytesmiths.com (Jan Steinman)
- 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 06:10:18 GMT
- Organization: Bytesmiths, the Smalltalk start-up specialists
- Message-ID: <Jan-2903960007310001@206.116.214.1>
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- In article <AD801A639668229B21@mac-sandvik.engr.sgi.com>, sandvik@sgi.com
- (Kent Sandvik) wrote:
-
- > In article <315A17CC.7C8F@bnr.ca>,
- > Andrzej Bieszczad <andrzej@bnr.ca> wrote:
- >
- > >Kent Sandvik wrote:
- > >>
- > >> It depends how you defined dynamic binding, could you send messages to
- > >> arbitrary methods in C++ during runtime (or java, by the way)?
- > >
- > >It sounds really strange if you want to send messages to methods :-)
- >
- > Yep, even more strange when the system responds "method not found" :-).
-
- Or "core dump, segmentation fault" or "general protection failure" or "Dr.
- Watson" or... :-)
-
- >Yes, but I was hinting at the SmallTalk/Objective-C et rest feature...
-
- My rule of thumb is that if I haven't read enough about something to be
- able to spell it properly, I refrain from criticizing it! :-)
-
- Anyone with a year or so of Smalltalk experience knows that their
- delivered system will have a different emergency exception handler than
- their development environment. What Kent is complaining about is a
- feature, not a bug -- it's called "exception handling," which Smalltalk
- also does if you walk off the end of an array, unlike certain other
- languages.
-
- What Kent is complaining about is only a development issue -- essentially
- the same as complaining that a C++ compiler detects (most) type
- mismatches.
-
- : Jan Steinman <mailto:Jan@Bytesmiths.com>
- : Bytesmiths, the Smalltalk specialists <http://www.bytesmiths.com>
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