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From: lgm@cbnewsc.att.com (lawrence.g.mayka)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.clos
Subject: Re: Is CLOS Object-Oriented ???
Summary: Smalltalk has instVar:at:
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.012750.5098@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 22 Nov 90 01:27:50 GMT
References: <1990Nov15.101847.26285@diku.dk> <3786@skye.ed.ac.uk> <LANNING.90Nov20110947@archer.parc.xerox.com>
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In article <LANNING.90Nov20110947@archer.parc.xerox.com>, lanning@parc.xerox.com (Stan Lanning) writes:
> The argument is (roughly) that functions that are not "owned" by an
> object may directly access the internal state of the object, and this
> precludes CLOS from being considered an Object-Oriented language.

Even Smalltalk has instVar:at:.  SLOT-VALUE simply offers the sensible
convenience of symbolic slot names rather than numerical structure
offsets.


	Lawrence G. Mayka
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
	lgm@iexist.att.com

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