sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) (11/26/89)
In article <1596@odin.SGI.COM> shap@delrey.sgi.com (Jonathan Shapiro) writes: > [...] > >You know, once you stick a function name out there, you're stuck with >it forever, and I have occasionally found that to be a real bugaboo. >I think that in our next major programming language we should abandon >the notion of "names". That's a good point! I have sketched some ideas in that direction in a manuscript (that mainly deals with intermediates of classes and instances). There I suggest replacing names with "titles" that are first-class objects, i.e. have unique identities. For instance, a large part of the problems of multiple inheritance disappears if we don't base the identification of attributes on names. Markku Sakkinen Department of Computer Science University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts) Seminaarinkatu 15 SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again) Finland