Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Static typing, OOP efficiency, and programmer error Message-ID: <27F88506.2664@tct.com> Date: 2 Apr 91 13:20:05 GMT References: <48311@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <27EA4653.EC4@tct.uucp> <3713@autodesk.COM> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 17 According to glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang): >>or am I all wet here? > >Sigh. Yes you are. Obj-C supports static AND dynamic typing. [towelling off] Thanks much. >God I wish people would at least program in it before they make >statements like this in public. I've read a lot about Objective-C. Apparently I've missed some developments since the original language definition was published. I know that static typing wasn't in the original version. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "All this is conjecture of course, since I *only* post in the nude. Nothing comes between me and my t.b. Nothing." -- Bill Coderre