Re: [ANN] HOM paper available
Re: [ANN] HOM paper available
- Subject: Re: [ANN] HOM paper available
- From: Jack Nutting <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:28:25 +0200
On 9/7/05, John C. Randolph <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 6, 2005, at 12:47 AM, Marcel Weiher wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > the draft of a paper on Higher Order Messaging has now been made
> > available at http://www.metaobject.com/
>
> Very cool stuff! I especially like the -ifResponds HOM. When did
> you come up with that?
>
There was a pretty interesting discussion about HOM concepts on cocoadev
quite a while ago (I don't recall just when, but it feels like 2 or 3 years
ago at least):
http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?HigherOrderMessagingDiscussion
I was somewhat skeptical to begin with, but I have since become fairly
convinced that Marcel's implementation is a really cool thing, probably the
biggest thinking-outside-the-box idea I've seen implemented with the
forwarding mechanism.
--
// jack
// http://www.nuthole.com
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