Python dynamic attribute creation

[Stephen Hansen]

On 6/27/10 10:10 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
> On Jun 27, 3:49 am, Bruno Desthuilliers
> <bdesth.quelquech... at free.quelquepart.fr>  wrote:
>> WANG Cong a écrit :
>>
>>> On 06/26/10 00:11, Neil Hodgson<nyamatongwe+thun... at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>> WANG Cong:
>>
>>>>> 4) Also, this will _somewhat_ violate the OOP princples, in OOP,
>>>>> this is and should be implemented by inherence.
>>>>     Most object oriented programming languages starting with Smalltalk
>>>> have allowed adding attributes (addInstVarName) to classes at runtime.
>>
>>> Thanks, I have to admit that I know nothing about Smalltalk.
>>
>> Then you really don't know much about OO.
>
> I don't really know much about Smalltalk either.

Same. I've been informed that I find Objective-C rather "comfortable" 
and strangely "Pythonic" because its object model is based in Smalltalk, 
and although Python's a step or two farther removed (what with not 
embedding smalltalkish directly into another language), is as well.

I don't think one needs to know Smalltalk to know much about OO. One 
might need to know Smalltalk to understand the history and perhaps some 
rationale of OO, _maybe_, but at this point-- the pure theory of OOP is 
taught and discussed far and wide entirely outside of the context of 
Smalltalk. Smalltalk may have originated it and may be one of the purest 
forms of the concept, but...

To say you can't really know "much about" OOP without knowing "much 
about" Smalltalk seems basically, well, wrong.

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