Re: [rust-dev] is rust an 'oopl'?

2015-01-11 Thread Matthieu Monrocq
Hello Mayuresh, The problem with your question is dual: - OO itself is a fairly overloaded term, and it is unclear what definition you use for it: Alan Kay's original? The presence of inheritance? ... - Just because a language supports OO concepts does not mean that it ONLY supports OO

Re: [rust-dev] Rust discourse visibility [Was: Tail call compatibility]

2015-01-11 Thread Jonas Wielicki
Seconding the arguments of others arguing *for* a mailing list. On 29.12.2014 22:02, Kevin Cantu wrote: It had gotten pretty clear that having a catch-all mailing list wasn't going to scale. Python also uses mailing lists as the primary communication medium. The main three lists are:

Re: [rust-dev] is rust an 'oopl'?

2015-01-11 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
hello matthieu, thanks for responding. you mentioned that rust supports some object-oriented concepts. may i know which? also, deviating a bit off-topic, would a decent grasp of functional programming be a pre-requisite to learning rust? thanks, ~mayuresh On 2015-01-11 17:21, Matthieu

Re: [rust-dev] is rust an 'oopl'?

2015-01-11 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
whew, that was an exhaustive explanation, thanks for taking the efforts to write in the detailed response. i realised one thing, the best way to learn rust would be to not have any preconceived notions about it, as well as to take things a bit easy and learn the language as it is, one morsel

Re: [rust-dev] Rust discourse visibility [Was: Tail call compatibility]

2015-01-11 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Jonas Wielicki j.wieli...@sotecware.net wrote: Seconding the arguments of others arguing *for* a mailing list. +1 -Tom ___ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev

Re: [rust-dev] Rust discourse visibility [Was: Tail call compatibility]

2015-01-11 Thread Paul Nathan
+1 for mailing lists. Can't stand discourse myself. On Jan 11, 2015 6:28 PM, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Jonas Wielicki j.wieli...@sotecware.net wrote: Seconding the arguments of others arguing *for* a mailing list. +1 -Tom