dr1b@cive.ri.cmu.edu (Dionysis Rigopoulos) (04/24/91)
Private methods were frequently mentionned in the discussion about access methods. However, "privacy" is not enforced by the system; its respect is merely left to the good will of the programmer. Don't you think that the method protocol should also perform some function, besides merely improving categorization, as for example, enforcing that private messages can only be sent by methods of the receiver? (Methods defined in its class or its hierarchical branch/sub-super-classes)? If so, how such a thing can be (efficiently?) programmed? -- Dionysis R. Rigopoulos dr1b@cive.ri.cmu.edu -- Dionysis R. Rigopoulos dr1b@cive.ri.cmu.edu