> > Am 10.01.2022 um 15:34 schrieb David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com>: > > On 10/1/22 10:10 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: >>> On 10/1/22 8:34 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: >>>>> On 09.01.2022 16:29, Seymour J Metz wrote: >>>>>>> Well all of your languages miss the support for the message paradigm. >>>>>> What do you mean by "the message paradigm"? How does it differ from >>>>>> sending method invocation >>>>>> and response messages to objects? >>>>> The message paradigm as set forth by Smalltalk explicitly defines a class >>>>> for messages, allows for >>>>> intercepting messages, rerouting messages at the will of the programmer >>>>> and much more, as messages >>>>> themselves become objects that the programmer can interact with, if >>>>> needed. >>>>> >>>>> ooRexx implements the message paradigm in full, something that is easily >>>>> overlooked as usually it is >>>>> not necessary to be aware of it. >>> If it's not necessary then why did you make such a big deal about it? >> Well if you have really read the entire post you should know. Without >> implementing the message >> paradigm things become clumsy and some important features, if you need them, >> are simply not available. >> >> > I'm still completely baffled by the why not implementing the "message > paradigm" is clumsy. Returning "self" from a method makes sense to me. What > if I'm creating a class which supports method chaining > but some methods return values other than self. Nothing you are saying makes > sense to me. It's dogma.
No, there is no dogma here, just a description that a mechanism is available in ooRexx by default that needs explicit programming in other languages which wish to be as fluent as ooRexx! ;) Just try it out. Many times new concepts that look alien at first or even unnecessary become more understandable by experimenting itj. Given your background I am sure that you would grasp these concepts quite quickly. J —-rony Rony G. Flatscher (mobil/e) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
