OOP in Mathematica -- please help a newbie
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- Subject: [mg20347] OOP in Mathematica -- please help a newbie
- From: Joe Strout <joe at strout.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 00:47:39 -0400
- Organization: The Salk Institute
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I'm trying to discover if and how Mathematica supports object-oriented programming. I just got v4.0, and a search in the master index points me to the Mathematica Book, section 2.4.10. But clicking the link jumps me to the bottom of that page, and scrolling up to that actual section, I find it's called "Associating Definitions with Different Symbols" and there is no mention of object-oriented programming. Is there a bug in the master index, or do I need to read between the lines, or what? I also downloaded "Classes.m" from MathSource, a package from 1993 which claims to add OOP capability to Mathematica. I opened this in Mathematica and did "Evaluate Notebook"; it generated a number of warnings (which now, for some reason, seem to be gone -- but they appeared to be mostly similar-name warningns). Is this what I should be using, or is this now obsolete? (The warnings, and the fact that it's from 1993, make me suspicious.) Thanks for any pointers! -- Joe -- ,------------------------------------------------------------------. | Joseph J. Strout Biocomputing -- The Salk Institute | | joe at strout.net http://www.strout.net | `------------------------------------------------------------------' Check out the Mac Web Directory! http://www.strout.net/macweb.cgi