Python questions from C/Perl/Java programmer
Andrew Kuchling
akuchlin at mems-exchange.org
Fri Sep 8 16:06:42 EDT 2000
"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:
> Having wrestled with Perl's OO for a long while before
> discovering Python, I find it hard to credit this 'inspiration'
> thing, though this is not the first time I've heard it mentioned,
> so I guess it must be a paraphrase from Larry Wall, or something.
Correct, it is. I think the difference is that Python has actual
syntax for OO operations, while Perl doesn't. The equivalent would be
if Python classes worked like this:
obj = {}
obj['__class__'] = FTP
obj['method']()
...
At least that's the impression I have.
--amk
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