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Re: Roman Maeder's Classes.m

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• Subject: [mg62885] Re: [mg62857] Roman Maeder's Classes.m
• From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
• Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 00:04:10 -0500 (EST)
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On 7 Dec 2005, at 13:10, Steven T. Hatton wrote:

> Does anybody know where I can find an explanation of how Roman  
> Maeder's
> Classes.m works?  The notebook advertised at the following link  
> seems to be
> some kind of binary file insted of a Mathematica notebook:
> http://www.mathconsult.ch/math/stuff/
>
> It may be described in _The Mathematica Programmer_, but that book is
> unfortunately out of print.  I can read the code, and understand  
> most of
> it.  That does not, however, communicate the conceptual framework  
> he used
> to create the package.
>
> -- 
> The Mathematica Wiki: http://www.mathematica-users.org/
> Math for Comp Sci http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/math/bmwcs/master.html
> Math for the WWW: http://www.w3.org/Math/
>

It is also described in "Mastering Mathematica" by J. W. Gray (I  
think he is the father of Theo Gray, the creator and developer of  
Mathematica's Front End). There is a chapter on OOP in Mathematica,  
Meader's package is explained and used to create a object oriented  
approach to GraphTheory. I have never had the slightest liking for  
this approach and I prefer the Combinatorica package by far, but the  
book is very good. There have been at least two editions but I have  
no idea if it is out of print or not.

Andrzej Kozlowski

• References:
  • Roman Maeder's Classes.m
    • From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@globalsymmetry.com>