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From: rapp@lmr.mv.com (L. M. Rappaport)
Subject: Re: Smalltalk terminology - Object, Class, and Instance
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John Sellers <sellers@sellers.com> wrote:

>Close, actually ALMOST everything is an object.  In most 
>implementations, messages are not objects.

It is my impression that in Digitalk Smalltalk (at least) a message is
also an instance of the class MESSAGE.  Is that incorrect?

Thanks,

Larry
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