Re: [phix] if 'number' then why not 'list' ?
- Posted by petelomax Feb 21, 2021
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Still not what i said.
Still no idea what the question is.
Is a class like a include file, with everything in the include file scoped to what you declared as a class?
What part of "Everything in a class is scoped to an instance of that class." does not answer that question?
Now both cows have variables and procedures and functions
They most certainly do not (as irv just posted while I was typing). There is one cow that can be referenced via two namespaces.
An include statement includes a file.
A class statement defines a class.
There are some minor similarities and many more vast differences.
A new class instance can be created using new(). An include instance just is.
An include can contain global and non-global definitions, which are and are not visible.
A class can have public and private fields, but they don't exist except via an instance, and only then does externally visible or internal only apply.
"Yes they are similar" and "No they are completely different" are both true at the same time.
If you had bothered to read even the first line of the manual you would know that classes are much closer to types than include statements.
