is squeak really object oriented ?
jan ziak
ziakjan at host.sk
Fri May 23 01:02:51 UTC 2003
On Thu, 22 May 2003 22:21:56 +0000, Sean Charles wrote
> >>
> >
> > but i do not want to give it a name, i just want to use it.
>
> If you had a list of such lists, how would you identify which one
> you want? One way or another, you have to 'name' it. It just comes
> down to the exact definition of 'naming'. Is it by object pointer
> value, position in the list, the contents. What? What's in a name??
i ment: i do not want to give it a TEXTUAL name.
yes, there are certainly also other "concepts" which are used to distinguish
objects from each other (one of them is a textual name, another spatial
position, ...)
> >
> > there are numerous cases when it's better not to give an object a name (e.
> > g.
> > not all categories which we people recognize have names, some do not have
> > names and names are not needed. when you are shaking you do not have to
> > explicitly name your state by saying "i am shaking" because everyone
> > around
> > knows that you are shaking).
> >
> Only if they have seen somebody shaking before, otherwise they might
> think you were dancing or just being normal.
>
> A challenge for you Jan: describe to us something that can't be
> named and then read what you just typed...
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