First-class message
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First-class message
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In object-oriented programming, a programming language is said to have first-class messages or dynamic messages if in a method call not only the receiving object and parameter list can be varied dynamically but also the specific method invoked. Typed object-oriented programming languages, such as Java and C++, often do not support first-class methods. Smalltalk only support them in an untyped way. In Objective-C (Cocoa), you can use NSInvocation to represent first-class messages in a way that is
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_message
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2013-04-02T12:47:21Z
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2024-09-15T00:18:31Z
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