From: Dossy Date: 2002-05-23T22:17:14+09:00 Subject: Re: confused about access control On 2002.05.23, Mike Campbell wrote: > > Stop saying "call" and instead say "send a message" because that's > > where the confusion arises. > > /k dossy Stop telling me what to do! (For everyone else, inside joke; > Dossy and I go back a ways.) /k UG vengence is a bitch, bitch! ;-) ;) > I don't have a smalltalk background, so the "sending a message" paradigm is > indeed where the confusion arose, but not because it's more clear to me. I always said that Java would lead to brain damage! Indeed, once you think aobut the object oriented paradigm as involving, guess what, objects ... and that they are merely communicating with each other by sending each other little love letters (well, messages anyhow) then lots of things start to make sense. At least, it did for me ... -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)