On 21/12/2010, at 12:00 PM, Steve Wart wrote: > I used Objective-C pretty much every day for the past 2 years, but for > the past 6 months I've been coding in Smalltalk (good old > VisualWorks/Envy and GemStone) again. Objective-C has a static > compiler and an interesting runtime (with Smalltalk-like message > sends), but the compiler and the runtime are very distantly separated > in time. You use GDB to debug your code. It's not a dynamic language.
I'm interested in what you mean by dynamic here. The fact that I can choose my selectors to send messages with at runtime would make it dynamic in at least one sense, no? It's theoretically not dynamically typed, but the "id" type kinda makes it fairly dynamically typed. This wikipedia entry seems to think Objective-C is dynamic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming_language Julian. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
