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From: glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Static typing, OOP efficiency, and programmer error
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Date: 1 Apr 91 05:02:30 GMT
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In-reply-to: chip@tct.uucp's message of 22 Mar 91 18:00:50 GMT

>or am I all wet here?

Sigh. Yes you are. Obj-C supports static AND dynamic typing.

Pretend that you program in C++ using an Object class at the root
of everything and that you virtualize all functions ever defined
in all classes of your application. A ridiculous design scenario
but bear with me.

You could type everything Object, but you probably wouldn't because 
you'd lose the benefits of static type checking for those places
where you don't want "board level" interfaces to classes.

The same applies to Obj-C.

God I wish people would at least program in it before they make
statements like this in public.

-g
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