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Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word
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In article <3BC9F6CC.E41BE18A@nbi.dk>, Jacob says...
>
 
>The object prefix notation has a very serious limitation,
>which would actually break quite a few of my programs. Using
>the object prefix notation, it is not possible to dispatch
>on the function result type.
>
 
A simple example of what you mean?