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Espen Vestre  
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 More options Dec 12 2001, 7:47 am
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From: Espen Vestre <espen@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net>
Date: 12 Dec 2001 12:09:49 +0100
Local: Wed, Dec 12 2001 6:09 am
Subject: Re: Why Arc isn't especially OO
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tfb+goo...@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) writes:
> things like method definitions outside classes and so on, I can see
> that now I'll have to reposition it as `not *actually* OO even though
> it looks a bit like it'.

I can see your point - but isn't it a bit sad to surrender to the cultish
definition of OO? On the other hand - maybe we should start referring
to CLOS programming as "generic function programming" and refer, in
footnotes, to "Cult OO" as a "a severely constrained special case of GFP"
;-)?
--
  (espen)

 
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