[830] in Coldmud discussion meeting
Re: protected and private object variables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mon Oct 16 12:47:36 1995
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From: brandon@avon.declab.usu.edu
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 10:32:02 -0600
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 15 Oct 95 21:06:54 EDT."
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To: coldstuff@pippin.ece.usu.edu
< I'm not sure in what way this functions like the private flag. "Private"
< for a method means it is accessible only from methods defined on its own
< definer. All variables fit this definition of "private." A 'protected"
< variable I would expect to be accessible from methods defined on children of
< its definer, as are protected methods.
Hsm, true, I seem to have been looking at it from the wrong angle...
< shared (Eric Weber's suggestion)
< unshared
<
< shared
< individual
I like 'shared'...
Also, I remember an older name we had for methods 'local' ...
-Brandon