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From: macrakis@gr.osf.org (Stavros Macrakis)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: The Emperor Strikes Back
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Date: 21 Feb 91 09:27:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: steve@cs.qmw.ac.uk's message of 15 Feb 91 20:50:37 GMT

Most of your rebuttal to Guthery's article (which I have not read)
makes sense.

However, you are wrong on the lexical scoping issue.

An object is indeed a "lexically-scoped subroutine with multiple entry
points and persistent state".  This doesn't detract from its value.

	-s


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