Re: Early and late binding.

From: x <x_at_not-exists.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:01:00 +0200
Message-ID: <dqqftg$fnu$1@domitilla.aioe.org>

"David Cressey" <dcressey_at_verizon.net> wrote in message news:jPUzf.9624$8r1.296_at_trndny01...
> The discussion about dynamic typing and the discussion about Dawn's new
blog
> both put me in mind of an old topic: early and late binding.

> I searched the web, and got a lot of articles on this subject. All the
ones
> I've read so far deal with two specific instances of early and late
binding.
> One is about the early or late binding of variables to types, the statis
> and dynamic binding topic. The other is about early or late binding of
> operators to class specific methods in an object oriented environment.

> It's possible that there's a more abstract treatment of early and late
> binding than the ones I've managed to locate so far.

Values and operators can also be typed.

With a SQL DBMSs one is forced to separate DDL from DML which may or may not be a good thing. Received on Fri Jan 20 2006 - 05:01:00 CST