Re: Are Logtalk objects "real" objects?...

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 07:17:24 -0700 (PDT), Paulo Moura
<pjlmoura@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 8, 1:56 pm, A.L. <alewa...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 01:56:38 -0700 (PDT), Paulo Moura

<pjlmo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nevertheless, If you really want to use Prolog modules as Logtalk
objects,

No. AI don't want to use modules as objects. As I said, objects and
modules are different things.

In the context of Prolog, both modules and (Logtalk) objects share the
property of encapsulating predicates. This, of course, does not imply
that they are the same concept in disguise. Crossing to other
programming languages, one easily finds many variations (and
materializations) of both concepts.

See Clemens Szyperski paper

Import is not inheritance - Why we need both: modules and classes

from here

http://research.microsoft.com/users/cszypers/pub/

The link to the paper is broken. Maybe you can describe the basic
ideas with your own words, preferably in the context of Prolog?


Check here


http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.53.2290

A.L.
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