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- From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: objects and closures
- Message-ID: <Bx8zpz.4KE@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 14:46:47 GMT
- References: <1992Oct27.205320.13271@twg.com> <9210302223.AA11001@cs.columbia.edu> <720756315@sheol.UUCP> <BEVAN.92Nov3182229@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk>
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- In article <BEVAN.92Nov3182229@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk> bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
- >You could always use a language which has closure(goto) and lets you
- >the _user_ add the syntax necessary to represent object(while) when
- >and if they want it. One example of this would be Scheme using its
- >(hygenic) macro system.
-
- ...so long as everyone uses the same OO extension, of course. I'm not
- convinced of the virtue of this over everyone using the same OO
- language.
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