Re: [Caml-list] OO programming

[Dirk Thierbach <dthierbach@gmx.de>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:49:49PM +0100, Tiphaine.Turpin wrote:
> The few (2-3) programs of "not-toy" size that I did using objects
> (either in Java or in Ocaml) both extensively used many linked
> objects implementing lots of methods in a mutually recursive way,

Then maybe one should look at one of those as a concrete example, and
it might be possible to decouple those interdependencies.

>>>> Much more annoying is that one also has to give types to arguments in
>>>> methods that are unused (they are present make them compatible with
>>>> another class, which uses them;

>> Mutual recursive classes won't solve this problem at all.

> Yes it does, I think (wether it's a good way of solving it is 
> debatable). If you declare the classes generating events together with 
> classes that handle them, 

I can't. First, they are not necessarily classes. Second, all this
stuff is provided by the GUI framework, which I cannot change.

- Dirk