Re: OOP in Mathematica -- please help a newbie
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- Subject: [mg20366] Re: [mg20347] OOP in Mathematica -- please help a newbie
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 02:45:40 -0400
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Joe, I haven't used object oriented programming myself, but you will find a fuller discussion of the Classes package and its methods in "The Mathematica Programmer" by Roman Maeder. (Not "The Mathematica Programmer II") David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ >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 > >