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From: cjeffery@ARIZONA.EDU ("Clinton Jeffery")
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Objects and Icon
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Date: 29 Oct 89 23:49:04 GMT
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Several people have done work towards an object-oriented Icon.  The first
person to propose anything concrete was (I think) Bill Griswold; I hope
he (and the others working in this area) will comment on the status of
their projects and whether they are publicly available.

My own hack, an Icon-Derived Object Language (Idol), will be described in
the next Icon newsletter.  It is a preprocessor rather than a modification
to icont or a variant translator.  It provides the encapsulation and
auto-setup procedures you requested within the framework of classes
and multiple inheritance.  It looks more like Icon than C++.

I will see about placing a copy of Idol in our FTP copying area.  Email
me if you are interested.

Clint Jeffery