[Newbies] Message/Method

[Blake]

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:00:40 -0800, Bert Freudenberg  
<bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:

> The difference is that you can send any message to any object, and the  
> object's class can decide how to handle that method. By default, the  
> class looks into the dictionary of all defined methods and invokes the  
> matching method. But it can also decide to handle *any* message,  
> regardless of which methods are actually defined. This lets you  
> implement, for example, generic object wrappers that log any message  
> sent to an object. Or, forward the message over the network to another  
> image. Or, which is the normal case, raise an exception that this  
> message was not understood.

Aha. You can do that with Object Pascal, too, though not so directly.

Thanks.