Erik is too tall and thin to be a troll. And
I've never seen him under a bridge.
Robert William Fuller wrote:
erik quanstrom wrote:
Finally, to argue that files are not objects seems silly. They ARE
objects. They have properties. They have well defined interfaces for
manipulating those properties. A more reasonable argument may be that
they are not object oriented since they lack certain prerequisites such
as inheritance and abstraction, both mechanisms of extensibility.
so files are non-object-oriented objects?
i bet you can't say that without smiling.
Troll. And I am smiling :-p.
Objects are defined as data structures with associated methods for
manipulating them.
Object oriented programming requires four key attributes:
encapsulation, inheritance, abstraction, and polymorphism. Object
oriented programming is a more sophisticated programming discipline.
Objects do not imply object oriented programming, although object
oriented programming implies objects.
You're merely confounding the issue by playing a naive semantical game
based on the commonality of the word "object."
