On Aug 24, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: >> Polls are not so good, compared to reasons. Could you give your >> rationale >> and talk about the trade-offs, in your experience? > > You summed it up nicely with the hat trick: > > "It's a nice hat trick: privacy, higher integrity, and semantic reuse > all in one." > > I'm not sure there will be anyone who can explain that any one OOP > system is right and the others are less right. That is what I imagine > will make consensus on this topic very difficult.. Every OOP language > has a different set of OOP features so there doesn't appear to be an > objective (ha!) winner after decades of programmers exploring OOP. The > fact that this is really a subjective issue is why your initial > request for comments seemed somewhat appropriate for a poll. It is a > "what do you like" question.
And yet you go on to make a great non-aesthetic case, with particular and pointed reasoning. (The delegation boilerplate for Java "has-a" cases scores!) Thanks. I'm still inclined the same way as you and Mark (and I believe Waldemar, at least at Oslo). IP+ZI FTW! ;-) > I've talked about both privacy and inheritance when you only requested > about privacy but the two issues are closely related. Indeed. Thanks again for the thoughtful response, /be _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list Es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
