Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!geaclib!daveb
From: daveb@geaclib.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Call by string (was: B&D)
Message-ID: <3654@geaclib.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 89 22:54:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: geaclib.3654
Organization: GEAC Computers, Toronto, CANADA
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  On the off chance noone has mentioned it, the concept of calling a
name expressed in an external format (ie, a string), is a basic
mechanism in Multics, Unix's daddy.
  It wasn't a language feature, it was how you did linking.  If you
couldn't link by at least runtime, you got told about the problem and
asked for a compiled function (or a different name) to satisfy the
call request.  This was not only useful, it also allowed you to do cute
demonstrations of prototyping...
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