Re: A Change In Terminology: Monomorphic Objects. Polymorphic Objects

From:
"Le Chaud Lapin" <jaibuduvin@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
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Date:
2 Jan 2007 11:25:49 -0500
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Dave Harris wrote:

Some people use the term "object-based" for code which uses abstract data
types without dynamic polymorphism. I don't like the term myself but it is
out there. For example, from:
http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~mgr/404/burks/pcinfo/progdocs/oofaq/s1f.htm

    1.15) What Is The Difference Between Object-Based And Object-Oriented?

    Object-Based Programming usually refers to objects without
    inheritance [Cardelli 85] and hence without polymorphism, as in
    '83 Ada and Modula-2.

There is also an entry on Wikipedia.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-based


Thanks for the link. I imagine walking down the street and asking
someone who plants trees for a living, has never programmed a computer,
and has English as his first language, "What do you think is the
difference between object-based and objected-oriented?"

I imagine asking 1000 such people that, and gathering the answers.
That the terms are so similar, IMO, is a form of weak indication that
the two are both object-oriented(based) programming.

I would hardly call it "dead". Most of my own work uses dynamic
polymorphism only where the implementation can vary at run-time, or at
least at load-time, and that is fairly rare. (However, my classes do tend
to be heap-allocated and forward-declared, for dependency management.)


That's interesting. I have never seen a programmer take the frosting
but leave the cake like that. Do you have an example of code where you
have done this? I am curious to see what it looks like.

-Le Chaud Lapin-

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