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9rxyesterday at 3:59 PM1 replyview on HN

> [[those squareBrackets] lookInsane:YES].

Nah, they are perfectly sane. They look like little ASCII envelopes because that's exactly the metaphor. Square brackets send messages.


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nmeofthestateyesterday at 4:13 PM

They're function calls right? I can't square the "message passing" conceit (implying putting message objects on queues, dequeuing etc) with the claim that Obj-C is just C with some extra stuff.

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