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Thanks for this! It's always nice to learn about the origins of things. I was around when they were called "self"/"super", but I never made the connection to OO

by pwm 1y ago

Thanks for this! It's always nice to learn about the origins of things. I was around when they were called "self"/"super", but I never made the connection to OOP.

rssoconnor 1y ago
These slides from Ralf Hinze were instrumental to my understanding of how to use late-binding to define objects in a functional language: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ralf.hinze/talks/Open.pdf https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ralf.hinze/talks/Open.pdf