Re: Interesting take on Paradigms (OO vs Procedural)

>>> On 4/14/2008 at 8:24 AM, in message
<3OJMj.441909$us.6638@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, William M.
Klein<wmklein@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> 
> some of this thread reminds me of one of my (many) lost battlers during 
> the 
> development of the '02 COBOL standard.
> 
> I never liked the implications of the syntax
> 
>   Invoke object-reference "method-name" using passed-parameters
> 
> It always seemed to me that what was really happening was that a 
> "message" was 
> being sent to the object-reference to be processed BY "method-name"
using

> passed-parameters. or in pseudo-syntax
> 
> Send Message to object-reference for "method-name" using
passed-parameters

Seems to me that you'd really want:

Send Message "method-name" to object-reference using passed-parameters
or just
Send "method-name" to object-reference using passed-parameters

The problem with that being that you now have the verb first and the
subject
(object?) second.
Personally I prefer that in many ways, but it would make auto-complete
rather difficult, I think.

Frank