re: df versus dm

[Eric Kidd <eric.kidd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 15:30, Jonathan Bachrach wrote:
> you should almost always use dm in your code (in preference to df) as
> this allows adding methods in the future.  i will say that i'd like to
> move to a purer language where there wasn't such a distinction but
> haven't quite worked out all the details.

'df' also serves a sort of assertion--if you're working in big messy
namespaces, it can occasionally catch two unrelated functions with the
same name.  This might not be ideal Goo style, but it's pretty handy for
us paranoid types. :-)

Cheers,
Eric

P.S. I'm really excited that Goo has been released!  Kudos to everybody
at the AI Lab.