Re: Generics vs. Message passing: object namespaces

Douglas Philips <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:05:23 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.lightweight
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On 2007 Feb 23, at 10:37 PM, [email protected] indited:
>    Yes, there is: this discussion is about method dispatch, and
> semantically they are polar opposites.  In generic dispatch the  
> verb is
> primary, in object dispatch the noun is primary.  These choices  
> lead to
> nontrivially different object systems.

Ah yes, the Kingdom of the Nouns.
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of- 
nouns.html

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