From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Some Clarifications
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:01:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050727140128.GA8027@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42E77634.6020904@rftp.com>
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:55:32AM -0700, Robert Roessler wrote:
> An object certainly seems a natural and concise way to represent a
> "state-holder-with-structured-access" - and I have done just that in a
> small OCaml project... but that could be the Smalltalk and C++ in my
> background talking. :)
Modules actually work better for this.
The exception is for GUIs, where inheritance allows you to do a few
minor but useful things - in particular having containers and layouts
which can contain widgets of any widget type. It's interesting that
the one example of OO design in the GoF book (or in my ancient edition
of it at least) is GUI widgets. I'm keen to know if there are any
other areas where inheritance is actually useful over straightforward
polymorphism and higher-order functions..
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-27 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-27 9:38 Don Syme
2005-07-27 10:58 ` Jon Harrop
2005-07-27 11:55 ` Robert Roessler
2005-07-27 14:01 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2005-07-28 0:29 ` Robert Roessler
2005-07-27 18:42 ` skaller
2005-07-27 13:36 ` David Thomas
2005-07-27 13:53 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-07-27 16:23 ` james woodyatt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-27 14:32 David Thomas
2005-07-14 18:00 (Mostly) Functional Design? Kyle Consalus
2005-07-18 7:59 ` [Caml-list] " Robert Morelli
2005-07-19 20:14 ` Some Clarifications Robert Morelli
2005-07-20 6:18 ` [Caml-list] " Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-07-24 0:04 ` Robert Morelli
2005-07-24 2:30 ` Paul Snively
2005-07-24 7:37 ` Alex Baretta
2005-07-24 8:08 ` Robert Morelli
2005-07-24 12:23 ` David Teller
2005-07-24 18:29 ` skaller
2005-07-24 18:51 ` Paul Snively
2005-07-24 12:42 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-07-25 7:23 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-07-20 7:34 ` David MENTRE
2005-07-27 15:37 ` Robert Morelli
2005-07-27 20:33 ` skaller
2005-07-27 23:48 ` Paul Snively
2005-07-20 16:28 ` Damien Doligez
2005-07-24 14:51 ` Robert Morelli
2005-07-24 16:11 ` David MENTRE
2005-07-25 12:21 ` Damien Doligez
2005-07-25 15:47 ` Richard Jones
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