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Re: Flavor suggestion
- To: Henry Lieberman <HENRY at MIT-AI>
- Subject: Re: Flavor suggestion
- From: Deutsch at PARC-MAXC
- Date: Mon ,30 Nov 81 13:44:00 EDT
- Cc: INFO-LISPM at MIT-AI
- In-reply-to: HENRY's message of 30 November 1981 11:26-EST
I second your suggestion about handling unclaimed messages. It has proved
useful for a variety of purposes in Smalltalk, and it provides a kind of semantic
closure in that once you have it, no non-message-passing control structure is
needed if you don't want one (and if the root of the inheritance structure
handles :UNCLAIMED-MESSAGE).