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Re: FINALLY: Another language adopts Smalltalk's keyword -syntax

S Perryman

2007-12-20, 4:35 am

Paolo Bonzini wrote:

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> Allowing different signatures but basing the dispatch on static types
> (i.e. not having multimethods) is broken by design. Anyway, this
> thread was on keywords, not on typing.

Indeed.
But the problem I described for Smalltalk and position-independent
keyword parameters is a problem precisely because of typing.

In order to remove the problem you have deemed such scenarios "poor
style" when it actually is quite reasonable. Or suggested the use of
multiple dispatch, which as I stated is a "sledge-hammer to crack a
nut" .

My point still remains.
There are better prog langs than Smalltalk to base keyword parameter
syntax/semantics on.

Regards,
Steven Perryman

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