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From: shap@delrey.sgi.com (Jonathan Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Has X Widget Library Collapsed?
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Date: 23 Nov 89 22:15:40 GMT
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In article <1862@netxcom.DHL.COM> kcr@netxdev.UUCP (Ken Ritchie) writes:
>Get out your JOOP vol.2, no.1 (May/June 1989) and see pages 34-40.
>"VARIABLES LIMIT REUSABILITY" -- sounds like a dire pronouncement!
>Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brian Wilkerson provide a very convincing argument 
>against using direct reference to variables -- recommending, instead, that
>methods ALWAYS be implemented for evaluating/changing state variables.

Sigh.  Okay.  Who's going to write the next famous article:
"Variables Considered Harmful"?

You know, once you stick a function name out there, you're stuck with
it forever, and I have occasionally found that to be a real bugaboo.
I think that in our next major programming language we should abandon
the notion of "names".

Jonathan S. Shapiro
Silicon Graphics, Inc.