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"root" <NoEMail@home.org> wrote in message 
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> I know I can go the rest of my life without OOP.

I've managed to avoid using it for quite a few years.

When I first looked at it to see what it could do for me, the first examples 
where what I'd been doing for years with dynamically typed languages anyway! 
So it didn't buy me too much.

> Someone suggested that I try to write a string class. Good suggestion.
> Instead, I pulled up the Java string class to see what is what.
> Except for the fact that strings are constant, almost all of the
> operations on strings correspond to something that a user might
> want to do with a text file. It seems that I might start by
> defining a TEXT class as a malloced region which will contain

Or you could just create a bunch of functions to work on strings; you don't 
need a class. OO provides neat ways of encapsulating those functions, but 
that's about it I think.

I've just finished a new text editor actually. It doesn't use OO, but does 
use a dynamic language (which makes it easy to work with strings);  the 
latter I consider more important.

And perhaps my editor is a little primitive but it doesn't need to do tons 
of string processing anyway: the main data structure describing the edit 
text is a struct, of which only one element, out of about twenty, is the 
actual text.

(If I did use OO, this text descriptor, describing the editor state, would 
probably be a separate class. The text itself is just a list of strings; the 
language would likely already have means for handling lists, and strings, so 
you don't need anything new.)

> characters. There are some operations on TEXT that are not
> included in the STRING class, most important of which are
> that the primary object can be changed.

This comes up with other types of a data: whether an operation will return a 
modified version of it's operand (leaving the original unchanged); or 
whether it will do an in-place modification. Sometimes I just allow both 
kinds (for example, sort() to return a new object, isort() to modify one.)

-- 
Bartc 

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Object oriented programming? root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2013-05-29 14:25 +0000
  Re: Object oriented programming? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2013-05-29 18:19 +0200
    Re: Object oriented programming? root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2013-05-30 13:51 +0000
      Re: Object oriented programming? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2013-05-30 19:48 +0200
  Re: Object oriented programming? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2013-05-29 09:21 -0700
    Re: Object oriented programming? root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2013-05-30 13:56 +0000
  Re: Object oriented programming? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-05-29 13:05 -0700
    Re: Object oriented programming? root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2013-05-30 14:07 +0000
      Re: Object oriented programming? "osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2013-05-30 10:49 -0500
      Re: Object oriented programming? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-06-01 12:18 -0700
  Re: Object oriented programming? Kicer <a@b.c> - 2013-05-29 22:13 +0200
    Re: Object oriented programming? root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2013-05-30 14:22 +0000
      Re: Object oriented programming? Kicer <a@b.c> - 2013-06-01 02:54 +0200
        Re: Object oriented programming? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2013-06-01 07:43 -0700
          Re: Object oriented programming? Kicer <a@b.c> - 2013-06-05 18:16 +0200
  Re: Object oriented programming? rugxulo@gmail.com - 2013-05-30 22:22 -0700
    Re: Object oriented programming? root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2013-05-31 14:05 +0000
      Re: Object oriented programming? "Charles Hottel" <chottel@earthlink.net> - 2013-05-31 12:12 -0400
        Re: Object oriented programming? root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2013-05-31 20:31 +0000
          Re: Object oriented programming? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-06-01 00:59 +0100
  Re: Object oriented programming? Willem <willem@turtle.stack.nl> - 2013-06-01 07:54 +0000
    Re: Object oriented programming? Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2013-06-07 11:05 +0200
  Re: Object oriented programming? Paul N <gw7rib@aol.com> - 2013-06-02 13:11 -0700
    Re: Object oriented programming? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-06-03 11:06 -0700

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