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Subject: Re: No THINK C 4.0 in this corner o
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Date: 31 Aug 89 20:56:43 GMT
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In article <227700038@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Along the same string:
>Objective-C allows for factory and instance objects.  They are defined the
>same, but the factory object handles creating instance objects and managing
>global variables.  Is there anything corresponding to this in TC 4.0?
>out of curiosity, does Smalltalk do this, or is this only for Obj-C?
>
>Michael Rutman

In Smalltalk the "factory" objects are called Classes, and handle creating
instances and other class wide functionality.  Classes btw are also objects,
but then in Smalltalk _everything_ is an object.

Objective-C is merely a grafting of some Smalltalk syntax and functionality
onto C, which is not a bad thing as the result is much prettier than C++. But
not as nice as real Smalltalk.
				-dg



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