Re: OO in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg37578] Re: OO in Mathematica
- From: may106 at psu.edu (Nafod40)
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 05:01:38 -0500 (EST)
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Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp> wrote in message news:<apvei5$s32$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 10:59 PM, Hermann Schmitt wrote: > > > My point is, that Mathematica is not based on functional programming. > > Mathematica is essentially a set of instructions, which can be > > structured > > into programs in several ways. > > They are missing presumably because > people at WRI do not think they would make a tremendous addition to > Mathematica's capabilities. I also share this view, which does not mean > that less than world shattering addition would not be interesting and > useful. As one voice in the wilderness, I would be THRILLED for some OOP constructs in Mathematica, primarily to make my code more readable. We do a lot of rule capture for engineering systems, and support for STRUCTs or STRUCT-like entities would help.