Is classless worth consideration

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Sat May 1 15:33:36 EDT 2004


"Dave Brueck" <dave at pythonapocrypha.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.163.1083359739.25742.python-list at python.org>...

> > Modules are an encapsulation mechanism, just like class instances, so
> > I'd say the large and obvious overlap counts as unnecessary
> > duplication of functionality that by rights ought to have been
> > factored out of the language design early on.
> 
> No offsense, but this is faulty logic IMO. Just because two concepts can be
> unified under the umbrella of another doesn't necessarily mean that elimination
> of one or the other is the "right thing to do" if your goal is to make a good
> programming language.

None taken, but I think you've misinterpreted what I've said. I've
never said users should be deprived of functionality (i.e. support for
modular construction and object-oriented programming), only that
there's much simpler, more elegant ways to provide it.

HTH



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