Objects, Functions, OOP Concepts

[elgiano]

Also releated to Prototyping techniques, see:

Why creating (new) classes requires recompiling the whole class library?

Is there some deep reason for this design decision? It seems to run counter to the general philosophy of using an interpreted (albeit byte compiled) and a “duck typed” language. I’m guessing that having a “fixed” class system (fixed after the interpreter is booted) simplifies the bytecode set (no dynamic creation of classes via bytecode). Is that the main reason? Another reason I can see is that could be that classes aren’t fully determined until the whole library class is parsed because the S…

Limitless Abstraction

FWIW, I have been using prototype-based programming in SC for about 14 years now. Prototype object oriented programming uses generalized objects, which can then be cloned and extended. Using fruit as an example, a “fruit” object would represent the properties and functionality of fruit in general. A “banana” object would be cloned from the “fruit” object and general properties specific to bananas would be appended. Each individual “banana” object would be cloned from the generic “banana” obj…

and more in general:
https://scsynth.org/search?q=proto