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
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1996-05-13 19:04 David Gurr [this message]
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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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