raph@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk (Raphael Mankin) (08/01/89)
dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb) writes: >In article <20077@paris.ics.uci.edu> schmidt@glacier.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt) writes: > There's also another problem. Allowing ``named parameters,'' a la > Ada, weakens information hiding, since formal parameter names are now > visible *outside* their original scope! Does this visiblity matter? After all you are not giving the programmer access to anything he did not have ccess to before. Raphael Mankin raph@planet.bt.co.uk
Raphael.Mankin@mamab.FIDONET.ORG (Raphael Mankin) (08/05/89)
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