On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> 1. syntax: OOP guys write down the first argument first (this) and then the
> method call and that is the way syntax works.
Yes, but they give up the ability to have first-class methods. The
method name is selected
from the scope of the object, not from the lexical environment. There
is no way to write
applyToAutomobile (Method action) {
return myAutomobile.action();
}
(of course you could use reflection, heh heh)
In addition, there's a level of kludginess that they put up with in
order to bootstrap
themselves into the object world. (No first-class constructor methods,
so `factories'
have to be introduced.) In FP, given an arbitrary variable like
`aList', there are a million
constructor functions that could operate on it: cons, list, make-foo,
alist->hash-table,
etc. If first-class functions were eliminated from functional
programming, it would be
pretty easy to auto-complete, too.
>
> Is it really hopeless for us? -- Matthias
Yeah. We're saddled with a language that permits us to name nearly anything.
Perhaps we need a less powerful paradigm.
--
~jrm
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