begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:59:40AM -0700: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:23:10PM -0700, Christopher Smith wrote: > > I find it depends a lot on the language you are using, actually. Using a > > deep hierarchy effectively in C++ is quite difficult and painful, but in > > Smalltalk it seems quite natural. > > Hmm since I don't know Smalltalk I can't comment but now I'm curious > why it fits so nicely with OOP.
In Smalltalk, EVERYTHING is an object. 1 + 2 * 3 9 (send the message "+" with the object "2" as an argument to the object "1" answering a new object; then send that object the message "*" with the object "3" as an argument...) My only problem with Smalltalk is that the syntax is sometimes a little unclear; I like Objective-C's use of [] to delimit messages. -- I like delimiters, and get annoyed at having to infer what I meant. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
