Re: Interesting take on Paradigms (OO vs Procedural)

"Rick Smith" <ricksmith@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Structures" are NOT "objects" and there therefore is a good reason for
> not
>> retaining the procedural nomenclature; neither are "procedures" 
>> "methods",
>> just because on the surface they appear to be similar.
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> I am sure you have that reversed. I agree that structures
> are not objects, because objects have a "vtable" or vector
> table to redirect procedure calls ... oops ... method
> invocations to the correct code. If 'class object' inherits
> from 'class structure', then an object is a structure! <g>
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Objects have a 'structure' but it is not a COBOL structure (level 
hierarchy).