This forms part of what Alan Kay calls “late binding” [see link below] and describes as part of what makes Lisp and Smalltalk great, which is something of a los

This forms part of what Alan Kay calls “late binding” [see link below] and describes as part of what makes Lisp and Smalltalk great, which is something of a lost art today, mainly because most contemporary programming languages (the usual suspects in the statically-typed camp but also languages one would not expect, Python / Javascript) go out of their way to de-emphasize it. I feel that Perl was the last, massively popular language that promoted late binding. https://ovid.github.io/articles/alan-kay-and-oo-programming.html https://ovid.github.io/articles/alan-kay-and-oo-programming....