[FRIAM] What is an object?

[Gillian Densmore]

lol and here I was trying to be simple and not get into states wich is a
cluster IMO. but yeah that is a good point the computer needs to know how
and wen to bake cookies and set the timer (states)

Now look you've just made him more confused! :P

Just to make this reeely go more off the rails:
Seriusly IF we want stuff to run in the web is having a state still needed
I thought that was one of the whole pissing contest between Mozzila's X-Tag
(states are baked in somehow) or WebCompenents (googles mess that has them
(sort of)
As I undestand it  X-Tag (for example) somehow real time asks if it's
possible to do something before assuming it can.

Or is that just a limit of computer languages?


On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Russell Standish <lists at hpcoders.com.au>
wrote:

> Not sure about "utility"/"tool", but an object is distinguished from a
> function by having state. Call an object's method, and the method's
> scope is populated by the object's data members, which of course,
> differ from object to object.
>
> By contrast a function either has no state (pure function), or its
> state is global (same for every function invocation).
>
> Cheers
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:06:57PM -0400, Nick Thompson wrote:
> > Dave, and anybody else who wants to play.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have always been puzzled by the question of how one distinguishes an
> > object in object programming from a utility in DOS or a tool in Matlab.
> Or
> > any mathematical function, for that matter.  You give it what it needs,
> and
> > it gives you what it's supposed to, and you don't give a damn how it
> works.
> >
> >
> >
> > Please don't yell at me.
> >
> >
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> >
> > Nicholas S. Thompson
> >
> > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> >
> > Clark University
> >
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
> >
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