[e-lang] Miranda invocation

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 13/08/2007, at 10.14, Mark Miller wrote:

>On 8/13/07, Valerio Bellizzomi <devbox at selnet.org> wrote:
>> What is a Miranda invocation ?
>
>An invocation which sends one of the Miranda messages
><http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/Miranda_protocol>, which are the
>messages that all objects respond to by default. The name (suggested
>by similar language in, I think, the ANSI C Language spec) is a joke
>on U.S. legal Miranda rights: "If an object does not provide its own
>implementation of any of these methods, one will be provided for it."
>
>For Java or Smalltalk, the instance methods defined in class Object
>are Miranda in the same sense. But there they are based on
>inheritance. E does inheritance by other means, so the Miranda methods
>are a separate mechanism.
>
>-- 
>Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain
>
>    Cheers,
>    --MarkM

Thanks Mark. The E wiki is readable easily.
Is there any documentation of the Miranda protocol in ANSI C / BitC ?

Val


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