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Re:Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” ... by Gibbon1 on Sunday March 17, 2019 @07:16PM (#19417406)
> and it should be possible to send a message that is not understood without causing a fatal error

I do that sort thing in C via a SendMessage(msgType...) idiom. Instead of a bunch of functions, you have one function and a message Type and some data. If the destination doesn't know what to do with a message of type whatever it just spits that back.

Re:Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” ... by 0815test on Sunday March 17, 2019 @08:13PM (#19417688)
This is basically how defunctionalization is implemented. I'm less confident about the "what if the destination doesn't know about the msgType you sent" issue, because defunctionalization itself is a whole-program technique where the destination context has to know what to do with your function call. But your solution (i.e. raising an error condition) looks reasonable enough.