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- From: billb@nasty (Bill Burcham)
- Subject: Re: GCC 2.3.2 implementation of signatures for C++
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.151615.27346@fnbc.com>
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- Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
- References: <1h8cg6INNccc@ector.cs.purdue.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:16:15 GMT
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- In article <1h8cg6INNccc@ector.cs.purdue.edu> gb@cs.purdue.edu (Gerald
- Baumgartner) writes:
- > Just ready for Christmas, a beta test version of our implementation of
- > signatures for C++ has been released and is available by anonymous FTP
- (munch)
- > What are Signatures anyway?
- > ---------------------------
- >
- > Roughly, signatures are type abstractions or interfaces of classes.
- > They are related to ML's signatures, categories in Scratchpad II,
- > definition modules in Modula-2, interface modules in Modula-3, and
- > types in POOL-I.
- (munch)
-
- .. or protocols in Objective-C? Is there any plan to add a distributed
- object capability using signatures?
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