I am a C++ and Python user and quite accustomed to OOP for some tasks. The following is a small example of using OOP style in Julia. Please give comments if there are better ways to do that. Thank! Hope it could help the users have the similar demand. # animal.jl abstract type AbstractAnimal end …

While I don’t personally find the ideas of OOP helpful when thinking about programming, @ninjaaron wrote a guide to his view of the topic a few months ago that didn’t seem to drag too many of the objectionable bits of OOP along when I skimmed it. It at least frames some of the patterns of the langua…

This is not so convenient to access the member variable of the base class. The user should remember which variable belongs to the parent class and use base variable to access the parent’s variable. It made extra workload for the user. For the up mentioned example, the user should access the member …

there was an intersting discusion about this: [image] Composition and inheritance: the Julian way General Usage I am a relatively newbie and I am wondering what is the most appropriate Julian way to reuse the code. I don’t want to trigger discussions on topics already dis…

There are some macros to make composition easier, eg Lazy.@forward and similar. You can also define Base.parent(dog::Dog) = dog.base etc and then the user would not need to remember slot names. I would advise to just let go of OO as a general style in Julia (which does not mean that you can’t us…

Thank you so much! Very helpful information. I am currently rewrite some simulation system written in Python with OOP design. I try to translate into Julia and found the coding style is a quite different and and is not convenient to translate directly. If there are some books or manuals, such as T…

https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html

As variable.something translates into getproperty(variable, :something), you can overload getproperty() for the derived types, like: function Base.getproperty(animal::T, p::Symbol) where {T<:AbstractAnimal} if p in fieldnames(T) getfield(animal, p) elseif :base in fieldnames(T) …

Thanks for the sharing! The suggested document is concise and useful, which saves me a lot of time to find solution from large amount of discussions on this website. Object Orientation and Polymorphism in Julia As a C++/Python user, I found Julia’s solution for OOP is quite different from the lang…

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