Method Underscores?

Peter Maas peter at somewhere.com
Tue Nov 2 11:38:01 EST 2004


Hans Nowak schrieb:
> I don't know what "truly OO" is.  It appears that every language 
> designer has his own ideas about that.  Hence, Java's OO is not the same 
> as C++'s, or Smalltalk's, or Self's, or CLOS's, or...

I once read the following definition:

An OO language must support:

- creating and using objects
- encapsulation (data hiding)
- inheritance
- polymorphism

Current Python fulfills this. Don't know about pre 2.2.versions.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Peter Maas

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