[Gridflow-dev] ping (fwd)

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Tom Schouten wrote:

> > Closure style is not OO. It's afaik a step between classic structured
> > programming and OO.
> what's the core of the difference then? do frozen contexts in closures
> have to be immutable? (evaluation vs mutation?)

Mutability has nothing to do with it all.

Here's a bunch of features that are rather expected in OO:

1. self: some sort of context that methods are executed in
2. class: some kind of container for common object behaviour
3. superclass: inheritability of classes
4. supermethods: ability to express a special method in terms of
   a general method
5. dispatching: when using an object you don't have to know its class to
be able to call its most special method of a given selector. That is you
may use subclasses as if they were any of their superclasses.

yet some languages almost ditch rule #1 (LISP) and some languages almost
ditch rule #2 (SELF).

afaik #4 is not obvious to do in a closure system.

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