Re: Lightweight Languages Workshop (DDJ Article)

[Brian Rogoff <address@hidden>]

On 28 Jan 2002, Greg C wrote:
> Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@killerbytes.com> wrote in message news:<B879BAA4.65EB%scott_ribe@killerbytes.com>...
> > > Can't confirm or deny it. But the Eiffel implementors insist that they
> > > have found a solution with add just a constant factor to each
> > > Methodinvocation. Well one have to admit Eiffel ist not very dynamic
> > > and the compiler has to do a Full System check each time. Maybe than
> > > it's possible to come to such a solution.
> >
> > But Eiffel only does single dispatch [...]
>
> Nonsense. Here's an article describing dynamic dispatch in the GNU Eiffel compiler.

What's nonsense? Eiffel only does single dispatch. Eiffel is not a very
dynamic language, it's statically typed, with a broken static type system.

> http://smalleiffel.loria.fr/papers/papers.html#OOPSLA97

Nothing in this paper contradicts any of the facts stated.

-- Brian