From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,2ea02452876a15e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: amitp@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Amit Patel) Subject: Re: Real OO Date: 1996/04/30 Message-ID: <4m5um8$bfu@nntp.Stanford.EDU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 152292079 references: organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University. newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object Date: 1996-04-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert A Duff wrote: >I wonder if it would be possible to design a language, or a tool, that >is capable of showing both the rows and the columns, depending on which >I want to look at right now, or maybe there's some way of expressing >both at the same time. Usually, the by-column (OO) organization is >better, but as Robert points out, not always. And sometimes, after I've >got a bunch of OO-ish code, I find myself searching for all occurrences >of a given "method" -- that is, sometimes I want to look at the rows. The Apple Dylan environment has(had?) some way to perform a query on methods. You could query for all methods with a certain name, and that would give you the row, or you could query for all methods that work with a specific class, which would give you the column. I'm not sure what happened to Apple Dylan .. - Amit