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From: dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Race Bannon)
Subject: Re: Access methods - New feature ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.155511.6526@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Keywords: Access methods, Smalltalk-80
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 15:55:11 GMT
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Because Smalltalk lacks syntax for describing 'public' and 'private'
variables does not mean it lacks these concepts.  ALL instance variables
are 'private' unless explicitly made otherwise by adding an access method.
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Dan Walkowski                          | To understand recursion, 
Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. |   you must first understand recursion.
walkowsk@cs.uiuc.edu                   |