On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 3/18/2013 11:31 PM, Andrew Barnert wrote: > >> The idea that message passing is fundamentally different from method >> calling also turned out to be one of those strange ideas, since it >> only took a couple years to prove that they are theoretically >> completely isomorphic—and, > > Since the isomorphism is so obvious, I somehow missed that Kay actually > thought that they were different. I suppose one could have different (but > isomorphic) mental image models.
Yes, that's the point I'm making, and it's significant because other programmers can't see other's mental models. mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
