Broadly yes. In Julia (and Common Lisp, Dylan, etc), methods do not
"belong" to a class intrinsically. If you want to read up about this
paradigm, search for "multiple dispatch" or "multimethods".
On Wed, Aug 10 2016, Willem Hekman wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I must say that I`m quite new to object oriented programming.
>
> Do I understand correctly from the manual that in Julia (unlike python) you
> do not use the keyword "self" and declare methods that apply to a type
> outside the type definition?
>
> To illustrate, let's say we want to have a type of apple and want to push a
> flavor to the array of flavors that characterizes an apple:
>
> # define a type: Apple
> type Apple
> brand::ASCIIString
> color::ASCIIString
> flavors::Array{ASCIIString,1}
>
>
> end
>
> # a method designed to add flavors to the apple
> function add_flavor(apple::Apple,flavor::ASCIIString)
>
> push!(apple.flavors,flavor)
> end
> # create an instance of an AppleFuji = Apple("Fuji","red",["sweet"])
>
> # add a flavor
> add_flavor(Fuji, "sour")
>
> Is this the way you'd do it in Julia?
>
> In python I got used to putting methods that apply to "Apple" instances
> inside the type definition where the keyword "self" would be used to add a
> flavor: push!(self.flavors,flavor)
>
> What would you say?
>
> -Willem
