viktoras didziulis wrote:

me too like rOOP, but I feel it is a little incomplete, just one more step. The ones that you call real objects are limited to user interface controls only. The thing I was curious about is a possibility to create an independent data object which is nor control neither a gui element. Which in this case may simply mean enhanced arrays...

I believe Mark Waddingham has hinted in the past that adding OOP extensions to Rev would be an interesting thing to do. Even going back to when Scott Raney owned the engine, there were some ideas along these lines floating around -- see the bottom of this page:
<http://www.metacard.com/pi5.html>

Of course at this point there's no telling when such things may make it into the engine or what form they'll take, but at least it's encouraging that the notion appears to have the owners' interest.

In the meantime, I've been getting by well enough adopting some of the philosophy behind the original Mac OS API to my work. Long before OOP became the standard, the Mac API was centered around "Managers", with discrete components interoperating with others through minimal and well-defined connections.

Much of that architectural style lends itself well to working with Rev, allowing us to get some of the benefits of OOP today without needing to wait for anything from RunRev.

And down the road if/when they add OOP extensions to the language, so much the better.

--
 Richard Gaskin
 Managing Editor, revJournal
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