Re: "difficulties in OO" [was Re: Adobe's lousy AppleScript implementations]
Re: "difficulties in OO" [was Re: Adobe's lousy AppleScript implementations]
- Subject: Re: "difficulties in OO" [was Re: Adobe's lousy AppleScript implementations]
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:32:34 +0100
Shane Stanley wrote:
>
Now, now -- I thought the flippancy was in context. It's nothing personal,
>
but you are waving the flag -- heavily -- for OOP stuff.
Well I do put out a decent percentage of OO-based code, but that's about
making useful stuff available to others, not some evangelical exercise.
*Lots* of folks can benefit from such code without needing to know OOP/OOD,
as long as they can follow the manual and can see the similarities to
application-based objects.
For solving David's design problem, a strategy based on certain OO-y
practices works best again (even if I didn't explain it in such terms). He
seems to think it helped, so hopefully I got it right there. And that
particular technique is the sort of thing that makes an excellent
pre-digested template pattern for _anyone_ to follow [1]. You don't really
need to be a programming whiz to do that either, as long as you're happy to
go along with something a bit unfamiliar.
And I _am_ happy to state that a greater exposure to OOP would be mighty
beneficial for some sections of the AS population, and the earlier the
better. I've seen enough code go through the forums, etc, that I've looked
at and thought "but if only...would be so simple then", to convince me of
this.
[Though I'd be the first to admit I still don't know where you'd start
teaching anyone *anything*. If I ever crack it, maybe I can start an OO-AS
Boot Camp, or something...<g>]
But hopefully that's as close to any sort of "Ra-rah! OO's-The-Greatest!"
rubbish as _I_ ever get. (If not, please do point out exactly where,
because I think folk who do talk like that are right twits and am NOT keen
to be numbered amongst them.:)
>
Sooner or later,
>
someone sitting quietly after a glass or two can't help themselves...
Ho-ho, well we've all been there and done that at some point... so I may
have to let you off purely on grounds of failing to come close to my finest
corkers ;)
>
I'm not in any position to make an "informed" contribution
Actually, I think you do yourself a disservice here. You go on to make an
quite excellent contribution in the remainder of your post, and many thanks
for taking the time and trouble to do so. And I DO promise to spend more
time on it, but I fear at the moment I'm a bit up to the old neck in This,
That and Everything Else, so I'll have to mutter some lax apology and
something about "raincheck", and get back to you later.
Best,
has
[1] Alas, there's no established source where AS folk could easily pull up
such information; a shortcoming that bugs me deeply.
--
http://www.barple.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk -- The Little Page of AppleScripts
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