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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: schlegel@pella.informatik.uni-rostock.de (Juergen Schlegelmilch) Subject: Re: Types vs classes (was Re: Module size (was Re: Software landmines)) Date: 1998/09/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 388627560 References: <6snlos$bh6$1@hirame.wwa.com> <904912650snz@nezumi.demon.co.uk> <35EFFB78.21BBBED6@ksc.nasa.gov> <6spfvf$nun$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6spojo$8ir$1@uuneo.neosoft.com> <35F0702D.E4F66E07@s054.aone.net.au> <6sq6jv$bj4$1@uuneo.neosoft.com> <35F0BBA9.7AD521DA@s054.aone.net.au> Organization: University of Rostock, Germany Reply-To: schlegel@Informatik.Uni-Rostock.de Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Sorry to followup on my own; just a correction. On 7 Sep 1998, Juergen Schlegelmilch wrote: >Not again! Smalltalk _is_ typed, in that every element in a Smalltalk >program has a well-defined type. What's more, you simply write ill-typed ^cannot >code because Smalltalk is rather strict in its type-checking; there is >no equivalent to a typecast, let alone an unsafe one. It is better than >C++ in this respect. The only point one can make with respect to types >in Smalltalk is that the type-checking is done at run-time. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Dipl.-Inf. Juergen Schlegelmilch University of Rostock email: schlegel@Informatik.Uni-Rostock.de Computer Science Department http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~schlegel Database Research Group Tel: ++49 381 498 3402 18051 Rostock Fax: ++49 381 498 3426 Germany +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+