Re: Generics vs. Message passing: object namespaces

On 2/23/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>  But in object dispatch obj1.foo and obj2.foo are not
> expected to do the same thing since the two foo's clearly are from two
> different namespaces, if the objects are unrelated, and thus are
> conceptually different words, whereas (foo obj1) and (foo obj2) are
> necessarily from the same namespace, without additional
> disambiguation, possibly non-local.

I see very little different between "obj1.foo" and "(foo obj1)"
The noun in each is clearly obj1 and the verb is foo.  There is nothing
magic about the dot or the parenthesis.

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~jrm