> I think that the mixture of prototype based and class based OOP is really > interesting. I think prototype based object orientated languages (such as > AS1.0 and JavaScript) are really pretty cool and you can do amazing things > with them. > > I read somewhere (sorry can't find link but it was on sitepoint.com written > by Harry Fuecks) that one of the leading technical directors at google had > produced a patterns book with most of the important patterns completely > rewritten for prototype OO languages and many of them were far simpler and > much less code. > > of course there is always the trade off with any dynamic language - the > less errors can be caught at 'compile time' the more you have to test the > code using 'unit testing' at run time.
Well, haXe (http://haxe.org) has both class-based and "structural" objects. You can describe types such as : typedef Point = { var x : Int; var y : Int; } Then every object or class instance having "x" and "y" Int public fields will be *automatically* of the type Point. Everything is strictly typed thanks to type inference, and yet offer expressive power comparable to dynamicly typed languages. Nicolas _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
