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From: jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal dying out?
Message-ID: <626@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Oct 88 12:24:59 GMT
References: <267@lafcol.UUCP> <460@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <1284@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: jeff@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
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In article <1284@buengc.BU.EDU> art@buengc.bu.edu (A. R. Thompson) writes:
>express these very different concepts.  It turns out that it is possible
>to define a static structure definition language that (when coupled with
>Pascal as the language for programming in the small) allows Pascal to be
>used as an object oriented language.  Neat huh?

Neat indeed.  Can you tell me more about this?  ML modules do something
similar, but I don't think the object part (a "functor" returns a module
that can be considered an object) works too well as objects, though it's
not so bad for combining modules (well, ML calls them "structures" --
and a "module" is a functor or a structure).