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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: FAQ Part 1 (of 2) [ identity and OO paradigm ]
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.93Jan25132727@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 13:27:27 GMT
- References: <1993Jan13.061114.18430@netcom.com> <PCG.93Jan19234945@decb.aber.ac.uk>
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- In-reply-to: objsys@netcom.com's message of 22 Jan 93 00:43:05 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.004305.16275@netcom.com> objsys@netcom.com (Bob Hathaway) writes:
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- People think of objects as having structure and behavior (and more
- recursively, usually through inheritance) and this can be directly
- supported with a natural OO model. Why contort this into a closure
- (or record with a function pointer and free variable list)? It
- *may* be possible, but quite unnaturally.
-
- A big IMHO is necessary there I think. Some people contort
- (unnecessarily pejorative term IMHO) objects in an attempt to see what
- lies behind the hype that spews forth from many of is proponents. In
- this way, the real issues can be evaluated without getting bogged down
- in the latest terminology. As an example of this, try "First-Class
- Extents" by Sinn-Der Lee and Daniel P Fiedman, Indiana Tech
- report 1992. This does not set out to discuss OO, but by
- investigating a particular concept (extents), it creates a framework
- in which _a_ particular model of OO can be recast.
-
- bevan
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