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The original article gives some important context to this sentence, as otherwise it is slightly weird, as both ST-80 (at least in comparison to earlier Smalltal
by dfox 10y ago
The original article gives some important context to this sentence, as otherwise it is slightly weird, as both ST-80 (at least in comparison to earlier Smalltalks) and CLOS does not have that much explicit concept of messaging and in both cases it's essentially late bound function call.
- gnaritas 10y agoWhat? Smalltalk80 has #doesNotUnderstand: which allows explicit handling of messages directly so no, it's not a late bound function call.