Hi Anton,
could you please point out to me the concepts you mention in a private
email ?
It still seems to me that what I said was right, see for instance:
https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKaysDefinitionOfObjectOriented
Cheers,
mg
(Many of these topics are quite old, and things which are no big deal
MG about Alan Kay's "message passing":
> It is not an approach per se, but just terminology.
Lest I annoy the list administrators by continuing this off-
topic disussion, I will confine my reply to the remark that
Kay's concept of message passing is not mere terminology. It
is also more that just
On 15/10/2020 18:27, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
well.. even scripts are first compiled into a class before the class is
then executed. Groovy has no interpreter
Which, I think, is a lesser known fact, and quite surprising to people
who perceive Groovy just under its "script language" aspect ;-)
On 15.10.20 12:16, Anton Shepelev wrote:
Jochen Theodorou to Anton Shepelev:
Jochen Theodorou:
Frankly... for years we have been defending this
position, but now, with so much distance I actually
really wonder why we keep this.
Perhaps it would have helped if you had documented not
only lan
On 15/10/2020 13:03, Anton Shepelev wrote:
we definitely should have sticked with Alan Kay's
"message-sending", and there would be much less
misunderstandings and problems today.
I fear this message-passing approach even further from
normal proceudural prgramming that conventinal OO languages
OCsite:
> As a matter of fact, you can. This darned Java "method-
> calling" lingo is terribly misleading;
It is not the Java lingo, but the standard and most
intuitive teminology.
> we definitely should have sticked with Alan Kay's
> "message-sending", and there would be much less
> misundersta
Jochen Theodorou to Anton Shepelev:
> > Jochen Theodorou:
> >
> > > Frankly... for years we have been defending this
> > > position, but now, with so much distance I actually
> > > really wonder why we keep this.
> >
> > Perhaps it would have helped if you had documented not
> > only language feat
Unfortunately no. Not sure how to address it because it seems a type
conversion problem in the `MacOSXmenuBar`
```
menu(text: 'File', mnemonic: 'F') {
menuItem(newFileAction, icon:null)
menuItem(newWindowAction, icon:null)
menuItem(openAction, icon:null)
separat
