On Feb 24, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
I am an object-oriented programmer by training and disposition. Every single object oriented programming language that I've used (and I have admittedly not used them all) with the single exception of Smalltalk (which I actually think got it right) uses dot notation. Java. JavaScript. Lingo. Ruby. Python. All of them. It is an accepted convention in OO languages where it is essential to identify methods and attributes with object namespaces.
I'll let the rest of you hash this out but just to point out the other obvious exception to the implication that dot notation is somehow essentially ubiquitous in the OO world, I would point out that, ironically (because it is the primary language for the Mac at the moment), Objective C (which has some obvious Smalltalk influence) does not use dot notation for accessing instance variables.
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