Labels:book | earth | reckoner | sky | tree | windowpane OCR: 1I-141 Mops General Reference inheritance chain Your program be much simpler, however, if it didn't have to explicitly concern itself with the class of a particular object at compile time, but could just send the Print: method to the object and have normal method resolution occur at runtime This allow you could store the of the various objects that need to be printed in an array or list without concern for the class of 'each one The technique just descri ibed is known late binding and is used by Smalltalk and other object oriented languages as the only style of method resolution While very powerful and elegant, late bind ling traditionally has serious performance disadvantages that make most of these languages poor candidates for production of commercial applications. Because Mops prov vid ...
