On 4/11/22 12:50 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
In Python, everything is an object. Doesn't that equally mean that Python is purely OOP?
Depends on what you mean by "purely oop". To me it suggests a language in which dynamically-dispatched methods are the only form of code. Python is not one of those, because it has stand-alone functions. I'm not sure I know of *any* language that is purely oop in that sense. Smalltalk probably comes the closest, but then its code blocks are essentially lexically-scoped anonymous functions. You *could* write Smalltalk code in a procedural style by assigning a bunch of code blocks to names and calling them like functions. Not that there would be any reason to do that other than as a party trick. Java looks like it's fairly purely OO at first glance, but it has static methods, which are really stand-alone functions by another name. Also it has some primitive types such as ints and floats that don't behave in an OO way at all. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
