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"""The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects
by gpderetta 3y ago
"""The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's closures."
Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress.
On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened."""
- afiori 3y agoOOP is actually class oriented programming and classes are orthogonal the object/closure duality. For example in php class A { public $a = new B;} is not valid https://onlinephp.io/c/31246 https://onlinephp.io/c/31246 Such a restriction makes no sense in a "closures are a poor man's object" world.
- gpderetta 3y agoNot sure what are you trying to say. My point was that a invoking a function that will act on arguments that have been defined away from the callsite is not a OO specific feature.