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authorDaniel Kullmann <daniel.kullmann@gmx.de>2015-01-11 00:15:49 +0100
committerDaniel Kullmann <daniel.kullmann@gmx.de>2015-01-11 00:15:49 +0100
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doc/tut2.txt: clarified usage of static/dynamic binding
The original text was slightly misleading in that it could be read that newLit and newPlus could not be implemented as methods; 
this is untrue, because newPlus could also be impleented as a method. The reason that newLit can't be implemented as a
method is that its first argument (x: int) has a non-object type.
-rw-r--r--doc/tut2.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tut2.txt b/doc/tut2.txt
index 2ae0f18f6..2948713e4 100644
--- a/doc/tut2.txt
+++ b/doc/tut2.txt
@@ -304,8 +304,8 @@ Procedures always use static dispatch. For dynamic dispatch replace the
   echo eval(newPlus(newPlus(newLit(1), newLit(2)), newLit(4)))
 
 Note that in the example the constructors ``newLit`` and ``newPlus`` are procs
-because they should use static binding, but ``eval`` is a method because it
-requires dynamic binding.
+because it makes more sense for them to use static binding, but ``eval`` is a
+method because it requires dynamic binding.
 
 In a multi-method all parameters that have an object type are used for the
 dispatching: