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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Preventing type extensions
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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> In fact, after reading up a little bit on Smalltalk, it seems that
> every message sent to an object (i.e. primitive operation call)
> dispatches dynamically; the programmer does not seem to have a way to
> prevent that.

Yeah, except for the case of "super".

> This "yo-yo problem" also exists in Objective-C.

Objective C is essentially just Smalltalk semantics bolted
onto C.  It's like two languages in one.

- Bob