I admit to not getting the humor or the irony (I'll duck behind
something now or "self thickSkin: #on").
Many OO systems already have what Marshall describes above. To go a
step further, Smalltalk doesn't even implement math natively. "x + y"
sends a message to x telling it to run the '+' method with the argument
'y'. That's how Smalltalk can be taught o add apples and oranges
<http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/articles/algebra/>.
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Received on Thu Dec 28 2006 - 14:54:35 CST
