--- Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > At 9:51 AM -0800 1/14/03, Jonathan Sillito wrote: > > > > > >Below are some questions about this ... > > > > And now some answers. :) > > > > >> From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > >[snip] > > > > > >> Objects, as far as I see it, have the following properties: > > >> > > >> 1) They have runtime-assignable properties > > > > > >Terminology question: what is the difference between a > > >property and an attribute? Perhaps the answer could go in > > >the glossary. > > > > A property is a runtime assignable name/value pair that you stick on > > a variable or value. An attribute is a named variable that all > > objects of a particular class have. > > For a while perl6-language was using both terms for the runtime > variable/value name/value tag. This stems from Perl 5.6's attributes and > Attribute::Handlers modules. But in Perl6 s/attributes/properties/ because > properties have nothing to do with OO, whereas 'attribute' has the > "object/class data-member" meaning in OO. > > > Properties can come and go at runtime, but attributes are fixed. (I > > think you could also consider attributes "instance variables", but > > I'm a bit OO fuzzy so I'm not sure that's entirely right) > > Both classes and objects can have attributes. > > No runtime modification of class and/or object attributes... :(
So a property is just an element in a hash attribute? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
