On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:33:38 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Is there any particular reason why this might be a *bad* language-
>> design idea?
>
> It is about as far from OO as one could get. Whether or not that is
> "bad" depends on the use case.
That's crazy talk. IF...ENDIF is *syntax*, not a programming model. How
is this hypothetical Python-like syntax not object oriented?
class Parrot:
def speak(self):
if self.name is None:
name = "Polly"
else:
name = self.name
endif
return "%s wants a cracker!" % name
Syntax controls *how* you instruct the compiler, the programming model
controls *what* you instruct the compiler to do.
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Steven
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