Re: procedural vs object oriented

Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
Well, no:

if Read (File) then
Foo;
else
Bar;
end if;

The uncertainty of a dispatching call is one of the context, exactly as in
the example above. Provided, that there is nothing uncertain in how
dispatching works or what potential targets do.

Of course, you can assume that every dispatching call is equivalent to a case statement over all possibly redefined primitives. That works well for one level.

But if you consider that each called primitive may in turn redispatch internally, you end up with a combinatorial explosion. In theory, yes, the analysis can be performed. In practice, no.
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