Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c++:789 comp.lang.smalltalk:464
Path: utzoo!dciem!trigraph!michael
From: michael@trigraph.UUCP (Michael Winser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: method selectors
Message-ID: <369@trigraph.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 19:50:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: trigraph.369
Posted: Mon Feb 15 14:50:45 1988
Reply-To: michael@trigraph.UUCP (Michael Winser)
Organization: Trigraph Inc., Toronto, Canada
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Summary: when are they bound?

What I want to be able to do is something like this

	anArray.do(atPut,index,value);

this would be equivalent to the smalltalk statement

	anArray do: [:i | i at: index Put: value ]

Most of the "tricks" I can think of do this would be *very* ugly and
defeat the purpose of using c++.
The problem is largely one of binding time.  In c++ lexical binding
occurs very early, in objective-c and even more so in smalltalk, 
the lexical binding is postponed until runtime.

I like c++ quite a lot, but I can't help feeling that more flexibility
in choosing the binding time would be very nice.

Michael.
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