Re: imagining a programming language with a capability calling convention

Mark Miller <[email protected]> Sun, 13 Sep 2015 23:45:19 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.capabilities.general
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On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Raoul Duke <[email protected]> wrote:

> >> 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?
>

If we're talking about memory safe languages, why lame?



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

If creation does not violate the connectivity laws nor cause external
effects, what's the problem?


-- 
  Cheers,
  --MarkM

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