Re: imagining a programming language with a capability calling convention

Raoul Duke <[email protected]> Sun, 13 Sep 2015 20:40:29 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.capabilities.general
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>> I am not aware of any work done currently that uses capabilities in the
>> calling conventions in programming languages.


You can't call a method on something if you don't have it. So in a
lame way, is not standard OOP already ocapy vis-a-vie method calling?

Of course, then you have to figure out who can *make* things since
ambient ability to new things up is not so good.