One of the most fun things I've learned about OOP and MVC as I've
worked through a couple of languages is that everyone thinks it's a
pretty good idea, but no one exactly agrees on what "it" is :) So, in
some languages the "parent class" that an instance is based upon may
be an object in itself, which can have it's own class-level ("scoped")
behaviors and PEMs. So, for a contrived example, you may have an
instance of an Invoice that has specific information about its
recipients, status, line items, charges and totals, and an Invoice
class object that can be queried about all invoices for company X, or
a total outstanding value. Sometimes, a scope resolution operator is
needed to distinguish between the invoice.total for the instance and
the Invoice::total for class. It's OOPy, but a little different than
what VFP calls OOP. (Which is different from Java, Python, PHP, Ruby,
DotNet, etc.)The most valuable thing I learned about JavaScript (from the O'Reilly "JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Doug Crockford, a very, very short book) is that JS is not OOP. It is object-based, everything can be an object, but it only has prototype inheritance of properties On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 4:56 AM, AndyHC <[email protected]> wrote: > ... the Scope Resolution operator ...is not very OOP. It has the smell of a > kludge... > > why? javascript** is super oopy/functional and you can 'resolve' right > back to the god-object - and 'extend' it! > > ** I am on record as saying it is the very worst language ever - but I > acknowledge I've been trampled in the rush to make it ubiquitous. > -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4vKWH3AE1g9WPgWir73vTM=A2gO-jO=mrfvpe1j3ab...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
