Nevin Pratt <nevin at smalltalkpro.com> wrote:

> Of course, a Smalltalk subset that doesn't have message lookup seems 
> like it would be a rather infinitismally small subset indeed.  At first 
> blush, this seems like it would be limited to all of the special methods 
> that get inlined or otherwise avoid the messenger.  If so, that is a 
> *very* small subset indeed!

Well, you get *some* lookup.  But you can't have multiple methods in
different classes with the same name.  

In short, you get C-style lookup of functions, instead of
Smalltalk-style lookup of methods.


Lex