From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fbeer@ping.at (Felix Beer) Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/26 Message-ID: <5cffvr$3e3@peng.ping.at>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 212312979 references: <5bphq4$5js@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <32E8DC1C.4871@rase.com> <5cbkqm$iu3@boursy.news.erols.com> organization: Customer of PING - Personal InterNet Gate newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.object Date: 1997-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: feldmand@erols.com (Damon Feldman) wrote: [...] > How hard could it be to write a type-free interpreter in a >staticly - typed language? This would allow static typing where possible >and dynamic binding where truely necessary. [...] >Off the top of my head, you'd need a root class for everything (or at least an >interface), call it "Object", and it would have to support a perform: method. [...] >Maybe someone has something slicker/easier? [...] Sounds like a coarse description of Objective-C to me. You should really give it a try, it comes along with the GNU compiler. - Felix -- Felix Beer fbeer@ping.at Radetzkystr. 36 fb@aquaconsult.co.at A-2500 Baden, Austria +43 2252 41431