Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!sei!ajpo!gbooch From: gbooch@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Grady Booch) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Visibility in Booch's book Message-ID: <717@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 25 Oct 90 01:15:24 GMT References: <21243@well.sf.ca.us> Reply-To: gbooch@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Distribution: comp Organization: Ada Joint Program Office Lines: 9 The reverse is indeed true (a few others have pointed this out, and the bug will be fixed in the next printing). I and my copyeditor apparently missed this reversal. if object X of class A sends a message to object Y of B, then it must be the case that class A in some manner has visibility to class B. this visibility may be achieved via a using relationship, or via an inheritance relationship. egb