But then eliminating those methods introduces a circularity problem: What if a symbol starts to be used as a selector part of the way through the life of that object? It's not a fixed property of a symbol to be, or not be, a selector.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Hernan Wilkinson <[hidden email]> wrote:

From the design point of view, I like the idea, a selector is not a symbol and we can see that clearly in the Symbol protocol, like Mariano and Gabriel said, implements messages that are related to selector behavior... Why symbols respond to numArgs:, precedence, isUnary, etc? those are a selectors responsibilities... not all symbols are selectors... so for me, it is a good idea. 

This idea brings implementation challenges of course, but nothing new :-)

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[hidden email]> wrote:

:)

Your previous mail was what the bee I had in my bonnet :)

Stef

On Aug 25, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:

> Actually I think is one of the better ideas I've read in this list.
> Too bad nobody seems interested in semiotics :(
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> 2010/8/25 Stéphane Ducasse <[hidden email]>:
>> I;m sorry that I raised a stupid idea.
>> Don;t bash people for me :)
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>> On Aug 23, 2010, at 10:26 PM, stephane ducasse wrote:
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>>> Hi guys
>>>
>>> I'm thinking aloud...
>>> I was wondering if we could not take advantage of a new class: Selector.
>>> MethodDict would only contain selectors and not symbols.
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>>> I remember that I talked about that with hernan.
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