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Re: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT
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Re: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT


  • Subject: Re: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT
  • From: Lee Ann Rucker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:01:44 -0700


On 3.8.2007, at 12:03, Tony Becker wrote:


On Aug 3, 2007, at 2:23 PM, Lee Ann Rucker wrote:


Ah, now that's where Smalltalk was different - nil was a full- fledged singleton object in its own right, and send to nil would fail with "methodNotUnderstood" - unless you'd implemented it, of course.

NSNull ? - It's a singleton too, if memory serves me.



But NSNull is not the same as nil, whereas in Smalltalk there was only one nil-type object to deal with.
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 >RE: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT (From: Jeff Laing <email@hidden>)
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 >Re: [OT] "Fluent Interface"? Welcome to NeXT (From: Tony Becker <email@hidden>)

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