Strong vs. weak-typing in OO design/languagges

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I'm looking for material dealing with the issues of strong typing versus
weak typing a they relate to object-oriented design and languages.  As an
example, C++ and Eiffel have strong typing and provide various object-oriented
features.  On the other hand, Smalltalk and Objective-C provide weak typing
(Objective-C strongly types everything but objects) and also provide object-
oriented features.  Just as a note, for this particular situation I would
require a language to have inheritance and encapsulation in order to be
considered object-oriented.

I would greatly appreciate any pointers that people could provide to such
material.  Please email me and I'll summarize to the net if there's enough
interest.


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Subject: Strong vs. weak-typing in OO design/languagges
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