Am 28.02.2014 13:15, schrieb Bienlein:
On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 17:16:54 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Yep, that is how for example .NET, Eiffel, Smalltalk, Lisp and many
other languages work.
An object in Smalltalk is not a primitive type. Even ints, floats,
chars, etc. in Smalltalk are no primitive types but objects. Not wanting
to be a rogue. Just pointing out ;-).
Yes they are, kind of, because the ones small enough to fit in
registers, like SmallInteger are converted to primitive types by the JIT.
The programmer cannot see it, because it is considered an implementation
detail, likewise in the other environments I mentioned.
--
Paulo
