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- From: knight@mrco.carleton.ca (Alan Knight)
- Subject: Re: objects and closures
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- Organization: Carleton University
- References: <1992Oct27.205320.13271@twg.com> <9210302223.AA11001@cs.columbia.edu> <720756315@sheol.UUCP> <Bx5DFt.7z3@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:15:13 GMT
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- In <Bx5DFt.7z3@dcs.ed.ac.uk> pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
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- >I think this is an excellent and thought-provoking analogy. Objects
- >are closures you can keep track of in your head. This is why I'm not
- >clear why you'd want ML-style closures and higher-orderness in an
- >object oriented language; it seems contrary to the style of OO
- >programming.
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- I don't think it's contrary the spirit of OO programming. I'm fond of
- closures and higher-orderness in general, regardless of whether the
- language is OO. Smalltalk certainly makes very extensive use of them,
- and is usally considered OO.
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- Alan Knight knight@mrco.carleton.ca +1 613 788 2600x5783
- Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6
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