June 4, 2002
1:17 a.m.
Greg Ward <gward@python.net>:
despite being warned just today on the conceptual/philosophical danger of classes whose names end in "-er" [1]
[1] objects should *be*, not *do*, and class names like HelpFormatter and TextWrapper are impositions of procedural abstraction onto OOP.
I disagree with this statement completely. Surely the concept of objects *doing* things is central to the whole idea of OO! Why do you think objects have things called "methods"?-) Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+