Re: The Foundation of OO (XDb)

From: Tokomar <no_at_spam.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:36:47 GMT
Message-ID: <jOoN8.1577$8y1.83332283_at_newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>


James wrote:

> The object is the fundamental atomic thing.
> An object can represents anything: a number, a word, a person, a car,
> a sound, a picture, a movie, a smell, a feeling, an idea, etc.
> An object can have instances.
> An instance is an object that has a class.
> A class is an object that has instances.

This verbiage does not tell me how to write a program.  

> An object inherits the non-overridden properties
> and methods of its ancestor classes.
> An object can override/add properties and methods.

And now that we finally come to real technical details, they are misleading. Classes inherit, and not all languages support property override.

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Tokomar 
Received on Tue Jun 11 2002 - 17:36:47 CEST

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