[1051] in java-interest
Re: ST/Objc "perform:" and Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim frost)
Thu Aug 17 19:15:40 1995
To: Mike Fleming <mikef@xnet.com>
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Aug 1995 10:45:37 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 13:47:24 -0400
From: jim frost <jimf@world.std.com>
|Frankly, I don't care about operator overloading. What I DO care about is
|the ability to dynamically send messages to objects. In C, you have
|function pointers. In Objective-C and Smalltalk, you have selectors.
|In java, you have NOTHING.
Why can't you create an object for this purpose?
jim frost
jimf@world.std.com
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