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- From: dogmat@aol.com (Dogmat)
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- Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Wicked ...
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 20:21:53 -0500
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- >> >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?
-
- Getting off thread, here, but I can't help agreeing strongly with the last
- comment. Everything IS an object, and if it isn't, then some vendor
- screwed up the implementation. I got out of Prograph (a Visual OOP)
- because it "bottomed out" at Numbers, Strings, Lists, etc. If Smalltalk
- won't let me treat Methods as Objects, I'll probably get out of Smalltalk
- eventually. Smalltalk, in principle, should allow anything (good or bad).
- Any limitation is a (temporary?) oversight that can be corrected with a
- more powerful library.
-