Hello Andreas,

Saturday, October 16, 2004, 2:50:22 PM, you wrote:

AR> I respect your opinions but please don't put things into my mouth that I
AR> haven't said or meant.

I did not put words in your mouth.  I expressed what I understood you
meant.  I'd like to know how I didn't get what you wrote.

>> From another point of view: Smalltalk's point was to teach kids, and
>> it seems to me it was important to make it late bound.  Therefore I
>> don't expect kids to understand the far reaching consequences of the
>> static type system you propose.
AR> But you are aware that eToys do have a static type system, are
AR> you? It seems as if kids don't have that many problems with static
AR> type systems as you are claiming.

There was no eToys back in the 70s.  I thought the point of Smalltalk
was to let kids write Smalltalk code.

While I am not familiar with the static type system in eToys, I am not
seeing how a static type system in eToys would be similar at all with
a static type system for Smalltalk code either.

Andres.