[sbe-discussion] Re: some more errata

[Andrew P. Black]

Oscar,

I think that this is clear, but inconsistent with the rest of the  
text, where we don't quote program symbols.   Using + would actually  
work better in this sentence.



While we are here, the caption to figure 4.1 is inconsistent with the  
definitions on the same page.  It should read "Two message sends,  
each composed of ..."

(I have to say that I don't like that terminology, though.  To me, a  
"message send" is something that happens dynamically, when some  
expression is executed.  I think that's the way that the ANSI  
standard uses the term.  The standard doesn't have a name for the  
syntactic thing: the syntax just writes <primary> optionally followed  
by <messages>, which may be a message send site, or not.  Thus, I  
fail to come up with a better suggestion, and retire hurt)

	Andrew


On 2 Apr 2008, at 11:20, Oscar Nierstrasz wrote:

>
> I already fixed it by putting quotes around the "-".  :-)
>
> Moreover, you cannot change the arity of a method. ``\ct{-}'' is  
> always a binary message; there is no way to have a unary ``\ct{-}''  
> with a different overloading.

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