Re: s-exprs + prototypes

[Steve Dekorte <address@hidden>]

On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 10:01 PM, Anton van Straaten wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but assuming a dynamically-typed language 
> that's
> capable of polymorphically dispatching messages on objects whose type 
> isn't
> known in advance, there's no way the dispatch mechanism can be as 
> trivial as
> it is for nested closures, where polymorphism is not an issue and 
> directly
> indexed access can be used.

Ah, but are you now imposing your own limitations on how lookups are 
done? And worse, doing so in a way that is not changeable at runtime.

Cheers,
Steve
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