On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 09:24  Uhr, David Simmons wrote:

> I think the general pattern of allowing <nil> to silently eat arbitrary
> messages sent to it is a dangerous (*bad*) practice.

Why do you think so?  I have been programming with message-eating <nil> 
for around 15 years and I do not find it dangerous in practice.

Marcel


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