Inform7 Actions and Rules system made me reconsider the centrality of the notion of Object when it comes to dispatching (note: Inform7 reads like english). Info

Inform7 Actions and Rules system made me reconsider the centrality of the notion of Object when it comes to dispatching (note: Inform7 reads like english). Inform7 takes a verb-centric stance, then consider the subject (i.e. "this", in OOP), then the object (i.e. the arguments to a method). You can inject more specific behaviors in an action (i.e. something akin to a multimethod in CLOS), by adding an adjective to a verb/method complement/arguments. You can even use adjectives on the verb/sentence. All of this is gathered within a rulebook associated with the verb that exists aside of the actual source code: you can write code linearly, following the natural order of a given user story from the domain you model, using multiple verbs in succession, but can still display all a verb's rule, encompassing many user stories. Most importantly, it is truely extensible because you can't add code to an action's rulebook without doing so through a rule, which has the same role as a junction-point in aspect oriented programming or even subject-oriented-programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject-oriented_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject-oriented_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_12_1.html https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_12_1.html https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_19_1.html https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_19_1.html