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In article <3176B6C5.F4D@concentric.net>,
Alan L. Lovejoy <alovejoy@concentric.net> wrote:
>
>The central point of object-oriented programming is...objects.  That is,
>the unification of value and behavior into an encapsulated object.
>
>--Alan

Behavior (implemented as methods) need not be encapsulated into objects
for a language to be object-oriented.  This corresponds to real life where
most objects do not have methods encapsulated into them.  Does a ball know
how to throw itself?  No, it is thrown by something else.  This can be
modeled in a language via generic functions which dispatch to the
appropriate method according to the argument list passed to it. 

  throw( <ball> )
  throw( <something-else> )