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Thanks. Just read up on messaging and now I like it even less :( In Smalltalk and Objective-C, the target of a message is resolved at runtime, with the rece

Thanks. Just read up on messaging and now I like it even less :( In Smalltalk and Objective-C, the target of a message is resolved at runtime, with the receiving object itself interpreting the message. ... A consequence of this is that the message-passing system has no type checking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_c#Messages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_c#Messages

infinite8s 12y ago
This is exactly what gives you the ability to easily wire up standard UI components and do tihngs like KVO. KVO is really difficult in something like C++ (for example, it's practically impossible to do in Qt to create without a lot of templating/boilerplace code).