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Re: Not understanding OOP stuff

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From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject Re: Not understanding OOP stuff
Date Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:31:27 +0100
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John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> writes:

> On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:09:20 +0100, Ben Bacarisse
> <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>
>   <snip>
>>For example, in a message passing language the message can fail if the
>>object does not implement that particular message.  In your examples,
>>the message sending (which is just a function call) can't fail for that
>>reason.
>>
>>To my mind, message passing would look rather more like:
>>
>>  var msg = ["foo", 42, 23];
>>  o.process_message(msg);
>>
>>This would succeed or fail depending on whether o's prototype chain
>>included a foo method at that time.
>
> Surely doing  a.foo()  will fail if a and its prototype chain don't
> implement the foo kind of message.

The suggested code included a.foo = <some function>.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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                Re: Not understanding OOP stuff John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-07-25 09:20 +0100
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      Re: Not understanding OOP stuff Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-07-24 16:04 +0200

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