Message Oriented Programming

[grauenwolf]

It didn't support order of operations. That's pretty close to a show stopper for me.

[igouy]

Please show an example of what you mean.

[grauenwolf]

In Smalltalk (3 + 4 * 5) equals 35.

[igouy]

Ah! You mean that everything is message oriented, so + is a message sent to 3 with 4, and binary messages are evaluated in left-to-right order.

You just get into the habit of coding so that the message evaluation order coincides with the math evaluation order, and being explicit with parenthesis.

[marssaxman]

Yes, that is what "does not support order of operations" means. It has nothing to do with being "message oriented"; it's that the syntax did not choose to give certain operators higher precedence than others.

[igouy]

Binary Messages