Re: OOP in Mathematica -- please help a newbie
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- Subject: [mg20359] Re: [mg20347] OOP in Mathematica -- please help a newbie
- From: "Andrzej Kozlowski" <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 03:01:47 -0400
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I guess this explains the source of all your other problems with OOP. (Unfortunately I saw this message only after I had replied to the others). You should not evaluate a package like you do with a Notebook. You should load it using a Get or Needs command. I think you should first study about the use of packages and contexts in Mathematica before turning to other matters. You are wrong about the Mathematica Book. Here is the relevant passage from section 2.4.10: You can think of upvalues as a way to implement certain aspects of object-oriented programming. A symbol like quat represents a particular type of object. Then the various upvalues for quat specify "methods" that define how quat objects should behave under certain operations, or on receipt of certain "messages". As you can see object oriented programming is mentioned and thus the master index is perfectly right. That this may not be of much help to you is quite a different matter. -- Andrzej Kozlowski Toyama International University JAPAN http://sigma.tuins.ac.jp http://eri2.tuins.ac.jp ---------- >From: Joe Strout <joe at strout.net> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >Subject: [mg20359] [mg20347] OOP in Mathematica -- please help a newbie >Date: Sat, Oct 16, 1999, 13:47 > > 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 >