Fwd: Puzzled look :)

Stephan Diehl (diehl@cs.uni-sb.de)
Wed, 09 Apr 1997 11:51:06 +0200

I got the following mail from H.R. Ulrich:

Subject:
Puzzled look :)
Date:
Tue, 8 Apr 97 13:53:43 CDT
From:
hrulrich@marble.aud.alcatel.com (Harrison R. Ulrich (contractor))
To:
ooe-vrml-request@sol.cs.uni-sb.de

Hi,

I am new at many things, so please bear with me, sigh.

Would someone please educate me about objects in the
context of a simple dyadic primitive function, plus.

In the expression:

5 + 5

what should one think of in terms of object orientness?
Can one think of its operands (ie 5 and 5) as data
which may or may not be busy at the moment the +
is to be applied?

I can understand "string".length();
but how do I think of the 5 and 5?

Thanks,
Dick