On Aug 25, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Guyren Howe wrote:
This would work if we had first-class classes. But we don't, and
right now, you can't treat a class as an object in this way. The
shared methods and properties make a class *almost* exactly like a
module at the moment.
First class functions seem, to me, to be a characteristic of
certain kinds of languages (mainly scripting languages) and not
fully compiled languages like RB, C and C++.
Java may support first class classes, but this seems to be a
characteristic of the fact that it runs inside a VM and where you
can dynamically create the code for a class, compile it and then
load it into the VM.
Are there examples of compiled languages that support first-class
classes ?
Objective-C.
Charles Yeomans
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