Smalltalk and Python
Ian Wild
ian at cfmu.eurocontrol.be
Fri Dec 15 04:54:32 EST 2000
Alex Martelli wrote:
>
> [go away, write a book, and]
> become the most sought-after consultant in the industry,
Sorry - I'm with Dogbert on "consultants".
[ian:]
> > classes exist only by convention [in Perl]
>
> 'only by convention'!? Have they abrogated the 'bless'
> keyword, now?
My understanding is that 'bless' does some internal
tweakery of a magic array (@INC). If you promise not
to look too hard, you've got classes. Anything that
needs a promise from me I'll regard as convention, not
a language construct. YM, as they say, MV.
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