Re: Closures versus objects

On 2/21/07, Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Joe Marshall wrote:
>
> > Perhaps, but is the placement a matter of taste or necessity.  And
> > is the Java
> > placement better or worse?  I'll argue that what you *want* to do
> > is specialize
> > the NIL class (that is, the class containing the singleton instance
> > NULL, not the
> > empty class), but you cannot because NULL is weird.
>
> You're absolutely right and I assume you recall that Ricard Cobbe is
> working on just this problem for his dissertation. -- Matthias


Nope, I didn't know that.  This is good news!


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~jrm