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Re: Internationalization [was Re: Printing plural

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From: David Gudeman
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1991 00:06
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In article  <1991Mar5.225011.23386@linus.mitre.org> John D. Burger writes:
]gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:
]> Simple.  Every time you define a data type, also write a procedure
]> to print it -- just like you would do in a so-called object oriented
]> language.
]
]That's true, but you're just describing a particular example of
]procedural abstraction, which we all do already...

That's my point.  This problem is not one that is solved by object
oriented programming, it is solved by function polymorphism or dynamic
typing.  Both features are independent of object oriented programming.

It may be argued that object-oriented programming makes the
organization more transparent, but then you are dangerously close to
admitting that object-oriented is nothing more than a way of
organizing code and grouping declarations.
--
					David Gudeman
gudeman@cs.arizona.edu
noao!arizona!gudeman
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