On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:20:13 +0000, Casey Hawthorne wrote: >>I think it's important not to wrongly confuse 'OOP' with ''data hiding' >>or any other aspect you may be familiar with from Java or C++. The >>primary concept behind OOP is not buzzwords such as abstraction, >>encapsulation, polymorphism, etc etc, but the fact that your program >>consists of objects maintaining their own state, working together to >>produce the required results, as opposed to the procedural method where >>the program consists of functions that operate on a separate data set. > > Isn't "inheritance" an important buzzword for OOP?
Of course inheritance is an important and desirable feature of OOP, but it isn't a necessary feature. Python built-in objects like int, list etc. were still objects even before you could inherit from them. I don't know of many other OO languages that didn't/don't have inheritance, but there was at least one: Apple's Hypertalk, back in the late 80s early 90s. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
