H. S. Teoh:
> I mean, if you take OO to the extreme, that would require excluding all
> those evil procedural constructs like if statements and for loops, and
> write everything in terms of invoking object methods... like this
> monstrosity:
>
> class MyClass {
> void myMethod() {
> IntVariable i;
> ForLoopFactory.create(
> new IntSetter(i.address(), new Number(0)),
> new BooleanCondition(
> new LessThanComparator(i.address(),
> 100)),
> new IntAdder(&i, 1),
> new IfStatement(
> new EqualComparator(i.address(),
> new Number(42)),
> new FunctionCaller(writeln.address(),
> new String("Found it!")),
> )
> ).execute();
> }
> }
>
> which is, of course, completely ridiculous.
Smalltalk is a language composed of a very small number of parts, where every
thing is an object. So in a sense, you write code like that, with a better
syntax.
Bye,
bearophile
