Message Passing

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Classes and Objects - slide 4 : 29

Message Passing

As a metaphor, we pretend that objects communicate by means of message passing

Message passing
- We often prefer to think of the interaction between objects as message passing.
- The receiver of an object locates a procedure or a function which can answer the message - method lookup
- A result may be sent back from the receiver to the sender of the message.