David LaFrance-Linden <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:28:08 -0600
> From: Alvaro Fernandez <[log in to unmask]>
>
> But in C++/Java, there is _run-time_ dispatch also, correct?
>
> Yes, but only on the single object the message is being sent to.
>
> Two points:
> -- Syntax: The current non-function-like message sending syntax
> object.methodName(args...)
> is probably the easiest to declare. Doing a function-like syntax
> methodName(object, args...)
> might make declarations sufficiently messy to be unappealing. Not
> sure.
It works just fine in Ada-95, without making a mess.
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