Prothon Prototypes vs Python Classes

[Mark Hahn]

> although for reasons I've mentioned elsewhere, I won't use Prothon.

Can you please point me to those reasons?

"John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote in message
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> "Michael" <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu> wrote in message
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> > I'm not terribly familiar with the concept of prototypes although I
> > believe I understand the basic meaning and I have worked in languages
> > which do use prototypes (although not called that).
> >
> > Aren't there many times when it is usefult to work with classes where
> > you do not want an instance to exist? Such as multiple level of
> > subclasses where code is kept easily readable by putting it on a the
> > appropiate class for that function alone. Often useful when you'll be
> > using many similar but not identical objects? I can see how it'd be
> > useful to be able to define new methods on an object, or edit the
> > methods on an object but I can not see the purpose to removing classes
> > altogether. Am I correct in my impression that with prototyping you must
> > instantate an object to define it's structure? That would seem wasteful
> > and cluttering of the namespace. Also he way your prototypes read appear
> > less clear to me than a class definition. I fear that you'd wind up with
> > people creating an object.. coding random stuff.. adding a method to
> > that  object.. coding more random stuff.. and then adding more to the
> > object.
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> It's certainly true that in a prototype based language all objects
> exist: there are no objects that the compiler deals with but does
> not put into the resulting program. And it's quite true that it does
> open up the floodgates for a lot of messiness.
>
> On the other hand, there are application areas where that is
> exactly what you need: I've already mentioned interactive fiction,
> and there are undoubtedly others.
>
> I'd like to play around with a prototype based language to see how it
> works, although for reasons I've mentioned elsewhere, I won't use
> Prothon. I'd be using IO if they had a windows executable installer,
> rather than requiring me to compile the silly thing.
>
> John Roth
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