Re: The Foundation of OO (XDb)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:13:25 -0400
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"Mats Helander" <mats_at_urbantalk.se> wrote in message
news:3d0901d0_at_news.wineasy.se...
> What positive ends do you aspire to meet by confusing your vocabulary?
>
> Everybody already knows that object = instance of a class. No need to get
> īnto any debates over *that*...
>
> If you would like some term for some thingy inbetween objects and classes
> (although for the life of me I can't understand what you would want that
> thing to be) then why not invent a new word for it instead of trying to
> reuse terms that we are all already very familiar with the semantics of?
>
I agree that he should make up a new word. However, James, you should take
a look at how Javascript handles objects using prototypes. It sounds very
similar to what you are proposing.
http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/JavaScript/Tutorial/objects.html
Search for the heading "Creating Objects". I'd be interested to hear your comments on how your system differs from it.
l8r, Mike N. Christoff Received on Thu Jun 13 2002 - 23:13:25 CEST