Re: polymorphism (was compare swarm with repast)

[Russell Standish]

One scenario I can think of is setting up proxy objects to represent
another object living in another processes address space. Method
invocations, etc. need to be passed via the proxy, so the proxy needs
to be able to handle rather unexpected sorts of messages. Objective C
can do this sort of thing standing on its head. I need to do this sort
of thing in C++, but I'm not sure I have the problem licked (but I
have a few techniques I'd like to try).

Marshall, James A R wrote:
> 
>   Has anyone on the list ever found a modelling problem where they have to
> pass messages to objects that they are not sure can respond to them? I never
> have, perhaps because of my training as a functional programmer, or perhaps
> because my modelling domains are normally simpler or better defined than the
> example Glen cites below, which I think is a very ambitious one!
>   Well, this is something that has been on my mind since I started using
> Swarm over 4 years ago, so I look forward to some good examples!
>       James
> 
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> How important this is to modeling is left as an exercise to the 
> reader.  (Hint: Do you think two humans know a-priori which methods
> the other responds to? ;-)
> 
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