The pointer + descriptor idiom is one of the best ideas in programming, which seems to be underappreciated and underused.
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Replying to @pervognsen
Yes. Unreal's metadata and data traversal would have been so much easier this way!
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic
Yes! Although you're in good company because all the classical OO object systems from Smalltalk onward took that approach.
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Replying to @pervognsen @TimSweeneyEpic
Alan Kay's OO metaphysics of objects as opaque message-passing machines is a pretty tragic dead-end in a lot of ways.
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Replying to @pervognsen
I wasted a couple of years of programming language design following that lunacy before recognizing the merits of type theory.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic
Are you still in the grips of subtyping lunacy or have you seen the light? :)
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I have invented the perfect type system, but this tweet is to small to contain it.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @pervognsen
Nice Fermat's quote, but for those (myself included) who want to see the light, can you show us something?
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