Re: What's so great about dynamic binding?

pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Wed, 20 Nov 91 02:25:05 GMT

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From: pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Keywords: design, OOPS
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 91 02:25:05 GMT

spitzak@girtab.usc.edu (William Spitzak) writes:
>[What's so great about dynamic binding?]


To be extremist, assigning a value to a variable is ``dynamic binding.''
When the virtues of ``dynamic binding'' are extolled, I think people
usually mean a matter of degree, as in ``more things can be bound
dynamically.'' For example, C won't allow you to create functions or type
a variable at runtime, but LISP will.


;-D oN ( Always the extremist... ) Pardo
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