[Grace-core] Fwd: Some notes on pattern matching on the wiki

Kim Bruce kim at cs.pomona.edu
Tue Jul 5 19:00:48 PDT 2011


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>> So what is the graceful view of nested classes anyway?
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> not sure yet. I think we are close to committing to something close to gBeta/Newspeak/ (Ceylon?) view 
> but haven't hurtled over that waterfall quite yet..
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> that is - yep classes nest, modules are nested classes, class family inheritance (overriding inner classes in subclases) works right...

NO! NO! NO!  Modules are not nested classes!!!  They have nothing to do with each other!!!!  Modules are modules -- they are not used for generating new objects and are not extended using inheritance.  Why confuse the two very different concepts????

I wish you hadn't posted that without discussing it first ...

	Kim



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