Smackdown... Boo ya. Just don't get Sean started on Interfaces :-p
"This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Sean Corfield To: CF-Talk Sent: Tue Jul 10 09:01:41 2007 Subject: Re: SURVEY RESULTS: Is ColdFusion OO? On 7/9/07, Steve Brownlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Overloading > - Generics > - Method overriding > - Static methods > - And most importantly, it's not typed (i.e. you can't cast a Sphere CFC as > a Ball CFC, among a myriad of other possibilities) None of these has the slightest thing to do with OO. Lots of OO languages out there do not have any of these features! This is exactly my point: you're blinded by Java. Generics in particular are ANTI-OO. Generic programming is completely orthogonal to OO. Read some of the literature. Read about the STL in C++. You CANNOT have overloading in a dynamically typed language. ColdFusion already has method overriding. Static methods have nothing to do with OO (they are in fact more procedural than OO). Casting types has nothing to do with OO - in a dynamic language, you don't NEED casts - the objects already behave the right way. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:283358 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
