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Re: [Python-ideas] Message passing syntax for objects

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zipher於 2013年3月19日星期二UTC+8上午1時04分36秒寫道：
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
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> > I am very interested in this as a concept, although I must admit I'm not
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> > entirely sure what you mean by it. I've read your comment on the link above,
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> > and subsequent emails in this thread, and I'm afraid I don't understand what
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> > you mean here. I feel you are assuming that your readers are already experts
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> > on message-passing languages (Smalltalk?). I know what *I* mean by message
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> > passing, but that's not necessarily what you mean by it.
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> I'm sorry, I haven't been very clear.  I'm not even an expert on
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> message-passing languages, but I see that it's a profound concept that
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> hasn't been adequately integrated into the OOP model.  In any case, I
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> will try to do better.  And I apologize to everyone on the list for
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> the prior mail spam.  A part of me is a bit giddy with the idea.
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> By message passing, I mean all the ways we communicate to objects in
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> the OOP environment.  Usually we "communicate" to them through
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> method-invokation.  But this is the wrong way, I argue, to look at the
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> problem.
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> With function or method syntax, you're telling the computer to
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> "execute something", but that is not the right concepts for OOP.  You
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> want the objects to interact with each other and in a high-level
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> language, the syntax should assist with that.
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> > By building it into the language, it would *enforce* a modular object
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> > style, rather than the current, very specialized and very programmer
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> > specific way there is now.  In fact, most people never really think in
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> > that paradigm, yet if the language supported/proposed such a syntax,
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> > programmers would start to re-arrange the whole object hierarchy in a
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> > new, more modular and universal way.
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> > [end quote]
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> >
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> > I don't understand this. In what way would message passing enforce a modular
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> > object style? In what way does Python not already have a modular object
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> > style?
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> Hopefully my paragraph clarifies that a bit.  But the key conceptual
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> shift is that by enforcing a syntax that moves away from invoking
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> methods and move to message passing between objects, you're
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> automatically enforcing a more modular approach.
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> Mark

Please check object pascal and objective c and erlang for 
the message-action director model of what you want.

C is too low level to be suitable for everything.

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Re: [Python-ideas] Message passing syntax for objects Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-03-18 10:04 -0700
  Re: [Python-ideas] Message passing syntax for objects 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-18 11:24 -0700
    Re: [Python-ideas] Message passing syntax for objects Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2013-03-18 20:16 +0100
  Re: [Python-ideas] Message passing syntax for objects 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-18 11:24 -0700

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