late-bound

One can tell how early- or late-bound a system is by looking at the things that can be changed while the program is running.

Archive 2007-04-01 Bill Kerr 2007

This is one of the reasons we like to make things late-bound: we don't know what we are doing half the time, and are constantly finding out things that we needed to know earlier....

late binding references Bill Kerr 2007

But late-bound has some deeper and more profound properties that include abilities to actually change the both the structure and metastructure of the language itself.

EToys (late binding) Bill Kerr 2007

This is one of the reasons we like to make things late-bound: we don't know what we are doing half the time, and are constantly finding out things that we needed to know earlier....

Archive 2007-04-01 Bill Kerr 2007

A late-bound system like LISP or Smalltalk can change pretty much everything while it is running -- in fact, both these systems are so good at this that their development systems are written in themselves and are active during runtime.

EToys (late binding) Bill Kerr 2007

One can tell how early- or late-bound a system is by looking at the things that can be changed while the program is running.

EToys (late binding) Bill Kerr 2007

But late-bound has some deeper and more profound properties that include abilities to actually change the both the structure and metastructure of the language itself.

Archive 2007-04-01 Bill Kerr 2007

A late-bound system like LISP or Smalltalk can change pretty much everything while it is running -- in fact, both these systems are so good at this that their development systems are written in themselves and are active during runtime.

Archive 2007-04-01 Bill Kerr 2007

It doesn't yet support proper overload resolution with async lambdas, nor lambda type inference, nor async expression lambdas, nor late-bound await.

Site Home MSFT Lucian Wischik 2011

The headline feature is that fancy new dynamic keyword that makes it possible to do late-bound COM calls, but the one that's relevant here is the support for optional and named parameters.

TechEd Bloggers Editor's Picks Samuel Jack 2010