On Sep 20, 5:14 am, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kay Schluehr wrote: > > Answer: if you want to define an entity it has to be defined inside a > > class. If you want to access an entity you have to use the dot > > operator. Therefore Java is OO but Python is not. > > you're satirising the quoted author's cargo-cultish view of object > orientation, right? > > </F>
If you define OO as implementation inheritance, then Java is not. It inherits interface only. Another possibility is, has a virtual function table. The fact that Python indexes by name doesn't disqualify it from that definition. I don't know if Java meets it. I don't think raw C structures would be included, and you can define function pointers in them. Wikipedia puts it decently: "mainly for OO programming, but with some procedural elements." <ducks> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
