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From: dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: CLOS: is it OOP?
Message-ID: <1989Sep18.015805.9592@odi.com>
Date: 18 Sep 89 01:58:05 GMT
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In-Reply-To: barmar@think.COM's message of 16 Sep 89 21:24:28 GMT

In article <29573@news.Think.COM> barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:

	   Flavors and CLOS permit methods to access any of the object's
   instance variables directly, even instance variables defined by a
   sibling class.

No, Flavors does not.  (It has the feature called "gettable" in old
Flavors and "readable" in New Flavors that allows you to give
outsiders access to instance variables, but they are off by default.)