OpenEuphoria

Re: Real OOP in Euphoria

• Posted by banjo <banjo at SQUIZ.CO.NZ> Jun 05, 1997
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Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen wrote:

> Real Object Oriented Programming in Euphoria
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  [some snippage]

>         If you want real OOP, you should write a pre-processor which
> replaces all the code and makes normal functions out of them.
>         However euphoria is more OOP as you might think since variables can
> be at will be used as public (global atom kip) or as private (atom
> kip). The same way you can have routines public or private (global or
> not!) (This applies within the .E file)
>         You just can't have instances of a class (an object) But this can
> easily be done by a pre-processor, and sequencing all the var's in
> one sequence, containg the vars for all instances.

  Each class having access, RAPID access to it's own methods is the key.
  If an object could save the name/label of a function as a variable and
  then call that function directly, then Euphoria would be the language
  for me... once it was ported to Linux.

>         If nobody's wants to write but does really want this kind of
> preprocessor, ask me and i'll code... (ask me nicely!!)

  im asking  :/

>         But i guess it isn't really needed in Euphoria, cause like the
> refman.doc said it achieves the same benefits in a much simpeler way.

  it ain't the same thing.

> Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen
> nieuwen at xs4all.nl

-banjo
banjo at mindless.com