jncs@uno.edu (02/18/91)
The 0.9 documentation release of the NeXT systems contained a section on objective-C language specification as released by Stepstone 1988. This section appeared in the Documentation appendices volume. Page 4-18 of such section constains an example of an interface file which " contain type information and function declaration [..] to more reliably and efficiently access the class". Such interface contains declarations of 3 C-functions tagged with EXPORT, instead of "+" or "-". Thus accessible to a consumer of the class?. In the implementation of that interface (on page 4-19) the following commefinition of Private Methods and Functions. I can infer that a private function refers to a C-function defined and implemen- ted in the implementation file; but, What is a private method? how to define it? Can we extend the set of methods in the implementation? Thanks J. Nino