March 24, 2001
1:37 p.m.
begin Glyph Lefkowitz quotation:
I intentionally avoided the pre/post action rules in favor of verbs because they're harder to make sense of in a "real" programming language; inform's object system was weak in some ways and I felt that was one of them.
Right, I see now. You'd much rather just have the verbs implemented in the abstract class direct object, and overload them as necessary. Yeah, using a real object system can help. -- You are not entitled to your opinions. 01234567 <- The amazing indent-o-meter! ^ Matt McIrvin: the Nikola Tesla of tab damage.