[Gambas-user] Types? Records?

[Rob]

On Monday 28 July 2003 12:51, Nelson Ferraz wrote:
> Hmmm... this may be off-topic, but it would be nice to add the concept
> of serializable, persistent and prevalent objects to Gambas:

Could you describe (in IT terms rather than CS terms) what 
serializable/persistent/prevalent objects would do for us?  All I can imagine 
is that "serializable" means "every object of a class gets a serial 
identifier" which I would assume is already the case, and that "persistent" 
means "every object has its own routines for saving its state to disk between 
runs", which I think is a Bad Idea(tm).  I have no idea what prevalent means 
unless it means "everything's an object" which I think is already how Gambas 
works. ;)

Yes, I did read the DeveloperWorks article, and it was completely over my 
head.  Maybe it's because it seems to be aimed at Java/Websphere developers 
or maybe it's just me.  Sorry, I got an A in my CS1 class where we learned 
Pascal on a Prime mini, then an A in my introduction to C, and I used to be 
able to implement Qsort from memory, but I never passed (or, indeed, 
finished) another CS class after that. ;)  Which hasn't stopped me from 
writing a ton of code in Java/C++/assorted other OO languages, but I am only 
now getting past "OO programming sucks" and have a tough time grasping 
"Here's an esoteric way to add more functionality to your OO language."

Rob