Re: Language question, a little bit OT

• To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
• Subject: Re: Language question, a little bit OT
• From: "Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net>
• Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:30:02 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Road Runner
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Stefan Schmiedl wrote in message <20010805084506.B32284@workhorse>...
>From:    Scott McKay <swm@mediaone.net>
>To:      To info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
>Date:    2001-08-04 18:15
>Subject: Re: Language question, a little bit OT
>
>> The language semantics is that all method selection is done
>> at run-time.  In practice, Dylan compilers do much better than
>> that; most of the code I know of gets most dispatch (90%)
>> done at compile-time.
>
>So Dylan is pretty clever in this regard ... ah.. ooh ...
>This is the reason for sealing stuff in Dylan, to make as much
>dynamic dispatch doable at compile time...
>another bit fell into place :-)
>


Exactly.  Not bad, eh?

• Language question, a little bit OT
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