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by inopinatus
797 days ago
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Ruby comes from the Alan Kay line of OO thinking, in which method dispatch is late bound via an object’s eigenclass. Aside from those burned into the standard library as native code, methods are defined at runtime. Bit of a chicken/egg problem for any compiler hoping to enforce dispatch invariants. The C++/Java form of OOP is so conceptually divergent from Smalltalk-style OOP that it may be less confusing if we renamed it. |
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