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From: gurr@snap.med.ge.com (David Gurr)
To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: Class variables in O'Caml??? + questions
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 12:04:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9605131904.AA12355@swag.med.ge.com> (raw)



Jerome Vouillon <vouillon@clipper.ens.fr>:

> On Fri, 10 May 1996, Thorsten Ohl wrote:
> > Sure, it us possible to do it.  But, IMHO, class variables should be
> > declared in the class and be opaque.  
> > ...
> > I'm just curious if (and why) this syntactic sugar has been left out
> > intentionally.
> 
> It has not been left out intentionally. Many object-oriented languages 
> (C++, Objective C and Modula 3, for instance) do not have class variables, 

C++ does have class variables but since everything is renamed in C++
they are called static member variables or static data members or ... .

> ... they can be easily simulated using references as you noticed.

Why not make class variables exactly that,  slots of the class object?

-D





             reply	other threads:[~1996-05-14  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-05-13 19:04 David Gurr [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-05-10 10:46 Class variables in O'Caml??? Thorsten Ohl
1996-05-10 12:57 ` Class variables in O'Caml??? + questions Christian Boos
1996-05-10 15:13   ` Thorsten Ohl
1996-05-13 16:36     ` Jerome Vouillon

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