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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