Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (2011)

Re:Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tu... by random314 on Friday June 24, 2022 @02:15PM (#31866964)

I kinda agree. But my personal take is different.

Functions can be invoked in at least 3 different ways or a mixture of the three

1. Prefix - C style f(x,y,z)

2. Infix - x + y; x.f(y,z); a join b

3. Post fix- (x,y,z) $ f

Infix is the best style in most cases, OOP accidentally helped programmers use a more readable infix style.

A lot of the benefits of OOP can be had by allowing good infix invocation support and interface support in an imperative non OOP language. Might as well throw in generics.

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Re:Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tu... by pphysch on Friday June 24, 2022 @02:52PM (#31867622)

Yes, you put it better.

Infix is tricky because it doesn't scale well to complex expressions. I think Python does it right with plenty of infix keywords a la "if thing not in myset: ...".

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