Hi, Christian, I'm interested with your OO approach. Did you make tests with your lib (memory allocation and size, performance) ? What kind of method did you use to code your OO approach ? pre-processor with translation in rebol ?
Christian Morency wrote: >Hi, > >Considering the low number of replies I got from the list regarding this >thread : Class object inheritance library interest ? and the interest shown >in the Business object versionning thread. I begin to think that either >Rebolers are not interested in almost pure OOP with REBOL or that interest >is only limited to one's personal project... > >For the past few months, I've been thinking about several implementation of >class object inheritance. > >I currently have one implementation : a rebol object that implements >inheritance through a library of func. > >I have another implementation in mind : one with the classic >smalltalk80-like object/behavior/class inheritance where all would be >implemented in base objects but would be inherited. > >But both of the above use current datatypes/functions of Rebol. So it would >not be pure-like objects. > >My latest "favourite" implementation would be to completely embed >datatypes/functions in objects. ie all object methods would be instances of >class Methods etc... String class would provide behavior to an embedded >value of datatype String!. etc... but would require more >path/getters/setters etc. > >I can understand that some people here are not interested in that. They may >be quite satisfied with the Self-like inheritance model of Rebol ! But I >would like to have the ability to change the behavior of objects by changing >their classes, and save memory by implementing a function once instead of >copying it everywhere. Even have a versionning system. > >This all started 4 months ago when I was about to do a project in Rebol. But >I knew I needed better OO for this project... This project has not started >yet and I wish it did. > >Again, anybody interested ? Cuz otherwise, maybe I'll be doing like everyone >else and go with what RT decided for me and use the current Object! >implementation. > >Best, >Chris > -- regards. --- Etienne --- -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
