I am confident that a new OOP language *ScalaJulia *is possible integrating
syntax of both functional languages Scala and Julia.
Thanks,
SS
On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 5:41:58 AM UTC-7, Sisyphuss wrote:
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> When I'm learning Julia, I am always thinking what is the correct way to
> do OOP in this language. It seems to me that what I learned in C++ does not
> apply in Julia.
>
> It took me long to realize that the equivalent of Class of C++ in Julia is
> not Type, but Module. Module is the basic function unit in Julia.
>
> Thus, a Class in Julia is like
> module ClassName # class Name {
> using # include<> // should be outside
> import # include<>
> export function # public function;
> var = 1 # private static var;
> end # }
> This provides the same structure as C++.
>
> However, this design has two issues:
> 1) The visit control is not as fine-grained as in C++, the encapsulation
> is not strict;
> 2) Variables at the top level of a module are global variables.
>
> These two points are closely correlated. If we let module have private
> variables, then they are not too different from local variables, ans thus
> can be type inferred.
> I think this is a natural way to do OOP with Julia.
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