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Re:Brad Cox: when OOP was about “Software-ICs” and micro-tra... by hhas01 on Friday December 20, 2019 @07:29PM (#21848662)
Self doesn’t have classes or inheritance, and it’s as [single-dispatch] OO as they come.

(Certainly moreso than something like C++, which wouldn’t look out of place on a Melanesian island. Never could figure why C++ and all its typed kin would choose to dispatch [dynamically] on only one argument instead of on all. Playing to their weaknesses, no?)

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Re:Brad Cox: when OOP was about “Software-ICs” and micro-tra... by MaxBarraclough on Saturday December 21, 2019 @06:31PM (#21853966)
My guess is that by going with single dispatch, you get clear 'ownership' in terms of methods^H^H^H^H^H^H^H member-functions belonging to classes.

Can't say I know a lot about multiple-dispatch though.

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