Hi,
When do you use instproc vs. proc? I'm looking at the code I've written so far, and it's all instproc, I make no use of proc at all. So I'm wondering if it's because proc isn't used often or because I'm missing out on something really cool.
L
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Laurent Duperval wrote:
When do you use instproc vs. proc? I'm looking at the code I've written so far, and it's all instproc, I make no use of proc at all. So I'm wondering if it's because proc isn't used often or because I'm missing out on something really cool.
Well proc is something you use if you want a procedure that exists only in that instance of an object. So if you want a procedure for class Foo which doesn't appear in instances of Foo then you use "proc". The same applies if you want to add a procedure to a single object. I must admit I don't really use it much myself but it's good to have it when you do need it, and really works with the dynamic nature of the language.
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On 13 Dec, Kristoffer Lawson wrote:
Well proc is something you use if you want a procedure that exists only in that instance of an object. So if you want a procedure for class Foo which doesn't appear in instances of Foo then you use "proc". The same applies if you want to add a procedure to a single object. I must admit I don't really use it much myself but it's good to have it when you do need it, and really works with the dynamic nature of the language.
Ah! So it's somewhat analogous to static methods in Java. Except that is't dynamic. :-)
L
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