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> With @ and [] one is in Smalltalk land. Without them, one is in C world. This is an odd and not particularly true way of looking at things. [] (for message s
by msbarnett 13y ago
> With @ and [] one is in Smalltalk land. Without them, one is in C world.
This is an odd and not particularly true way of looking at things. [] (for message sending), is merely some syntactic sugar for the objc_msgsnd function call.
- pjmlp 13y agoWhich could have been implemented in a better way, e.g. Dylan does dynamic dispatch with multi-methods without requiring me to type [] everywhere. A real pain in non US keyboards.