[meheleventyone]

Yeah I was intentionally not talking about OOP but about messaging because I think the concept quite obviously transcends the programming paradigm and I often use it as you suggest.

That said one way of processing messages is to relate the message name to a method name at runtime and that is quite successful which is where I think the stronger version of that linking comes from in other languages that have static binding. It's still the same messaging concept but the routing is resolved at compile time which has tradeoffs.