Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!mace.cc.purdue.edu!nvi From: nvi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: Access methods - New feature ? Keywords: Access methods, Smalltalk-80 Message-ID: <7294@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 22 Apr 91 16:53:20 GMT References: <1991Apr21.221149.8057@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> <2270@media03.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Lines: 8 Actually, I think being able to tell the compiler that "private" methods are just that would solve this and other problems relatively cleanly. I'm not so enamored of C++'s "protected", but others feel it would be a good idea as well. Charles Allen Internet: cca@physics.purdue.edu Department of Physics HEPnet: purdnu::allen, fnal::cca Purdue University Bitnet: cca@fnal.bitnet West Lafayette, IN 47907-1396 talknet: 317/494-9776