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[Felix A. Croes]

Troels Therkelsen <troels at 2-10.org> wrote:

>[...]
> With all the strict typing going around, and the addition of LWOs, I have to
> say I'm curious why you can't type objects ala Java, eg.,
>
>   void func(object /lib/lwo/sorter obj);
>
> Then func() would only accept objects either inheriting /lib/lwo/sorter or
> being that object themselves.  Without this object typing, basically all
> your objects are 'mixed'.  Especially with LWOs and passing them between
> functions, it would be very convenient to have the runtime system do the
> type checking for you.

Something like this is certainly going to happen in the future.  It is
a large change, and there are reasons for not going entirely the way
that Java has gone: a certain degree of `mixedness' is necessary for
maintenance in a persistent system.

Regards,
Dworkin
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