On Tuesday 29 August 2006 13:26, Jonathan Lang wrote:
Perl6 handles both object-orientation (through inheritance) and
role-playing (through composition).
What exactly does inheritance have to do with object orientation, except that
some OO systems support inheritance? Plenty of OO systems
Originally this posting was written in response to the 'ref' spec
thread. I included char diagrams that got screwed up, so I made a png
diagram instead (attached) and I re-edited the posting to refer to
attached diagram, and then added some more comments. Hope everyone can
'see' the png.
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See diagram case 2 (Class A and Class B intersect):
B are built from a role that represents their intersection ( Class
A U Class B), and then code is added in the definitions of the
It may be just me being confused, but the symbol that looks like a U
(U+222a) is usually union; intersection
On 8/29/06, Daniel Hulme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perl up to 5 may be executable line
noise, but I can see Perl 6 being the closest thing yet to executable
maths, and I love it.
Funny, I could have sworn APL was the closest thing yet to executable maths.
( Hey, wait a minute, I'm American;
I accidently sent this directly to Richard. Sorry about that, folks...
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From: Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Aug 29, 2006 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: Classes / roles as sets / subsets
To: Richard Hainsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Richard Hainsworth wrote:
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