Yigal Chripun wrote:
Maybe it's just me but all those C-style statements seem so arcane and
unnessaccary. real OOP languages do not need control structures to be
part of the language - they're part of the class library instead.
Here's some Smalltalk examples: (and D-like comparable code)
Interesting...
Assuming the core language had no control structures, how would library
authors implement them?
If the language itself lacked IF, ELSE, SWITCH, CASE, DO, WHILE, FOR,
and presumably GOTO... how exactly would you go about implementing them
in a library?
--benji
