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From: oconnor@apci.net (James O'Connor)
Subject: Re: polymophism
Date: 1996/11/23
Message-ID: <577c07$r4t@queeg.apci.net>#1/1
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references: <56q99a$5o3@rc1.vub.ac.be> <56skhq$9cg@hacgate2.hac.com>
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organization: Applied Personal Computing, Inc.
reply-to: oconnor@apci.net (James O'Connor)
newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1996-11-23T00:00:00+00:00
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In <32957EB9.17AF@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>, Klaus Brouwer <brouwer@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
>> Note I don't want to get into the fruitless religious war over whether
>> 
>> The_object.Do_something (now);
>> 
>> or
>> 
>> Do_Something (The_Object, Now)
>> 
>> is better.
>
>Would be better, since 
>
>[The_Object do_someting:now]
>
>is best.
>

That looks like Smalltalk....except it won't work unless you do

[The_Object do_someting:now] value.
[The_Object do_someting:now] fork.
myBlock := [The_Object do_someting:now]

Somthing like that....

My object wasn't based on whether The_object.Do_something (now); as in C++ 
or Java  or Do_Something (The_Object, Now); as in Ada is a better way of 
expressing the request of an object to perform some operation.  My object was 
that Do_Something (The_Object, Now); obscures  whether you are performing
 an operation *of* The_Object or *on* the object, or an operation that happens to
 *use* The_Object.

>
>Regards,
>	Klaus Brouwer


James O'Connor
oconnor@apci.net