From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Subject: Re: Procedure types and dynamic binding
Date: 12 Jan 89 06:12:37 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35364@think.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4072@hubcap.UUCP
In article <4072@hubcap.UUCP> billwolf@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>From article <35339@think.UUCP>, by barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin):
>> [Procedural variables] are great for AI applications in which objects
>> must have highly variable active properties.
> Could you expand on these situations? I'll be happy to support
> procedural variables if you can describe a general class of applications
> in which they are intuitively natural and necessary...
Unfortunately, I'm not an AI programmer, so I don't have concrete
examples. I merely imagined that paradigms such as message-passing
and actors would be implemented using procedure objects.
Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
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1988-12-30 21:42 Procedure types and dynamic binding Erland Sommarskog
1988-12-31 17:46 ` Bob Hathaway
1989-01-05 10:02 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-07 18:05 ` Bob Hathaway
1989-01-07 21:21 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-08 1:49 ` Bob Hathaway
1989-01-08 19:01 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-08 23:10 ` Bob Hathaway
1989-01-09 1:47 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-09 20:19 ` Bob Hathaway
1989-01-10 3:01 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-10 3:06 ` Bob Hathaway
1989-01-10 19:11 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-11 2:08 ` Bob Hathaway
1989-01-11 14:24 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-11 17:51 ` Barry Margolin
1989-01-11 22:54 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-12 13:57 ` Robert Firth
1989-01-12 19:09 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-14 0:46 ` Scott Moody
1989-01-15 18:28 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-24 4:07 ` Paul Stachour
1989-01-12 0:58 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-12 6:12 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
1989-01-11 14:48 ` Submitting Ada 9X revision requests William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-11 2:10 ` Procedure types and dynamic binding Bob Hathaway
1989-01-05 7:38 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
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1989-01-06 23:04 Erland Sommarskog
1989-01-07 22:20 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
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