The SENDID Statement

Synopsis:
<(SENDID id name {arguments})>

The method name (a LISP symbol) of the class with the given id (a C expression in a LISP string) is applied to the arguments. This statement may also appear anywhere in a template source file, but uses the id to access the function pointer in the class table to invoke the method name rather than an object like SEND does.

Note: The intrinsic difference between the SENDCLASS/SENDSELF/SENDPRIVATE and SEND/SENDID statements is that in the former case the class on which the method is defined is already known during compile time, whereas in the latter case this class is determined at run time! Therefore the former statements can be directly translated into a C function call, whereas the latter need to access the class table to find out the correct class, thus producing slightly less efficient code.