From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-06T02:24:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

Hello --

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Christian Szegedy wrote:

> Paul Prescod wrote:
> >
> > Stroustrop says: "The protection of private data relies on
> > restriction of the use of the class member names. It can therefore be
> > circumvented by addressing manipulation and explicit type conversion.
> > But this, of course, is cheating. C++ protects against accident rather
> > than deliberate circumvention (fraud)."
>
>
> What I really dislike in Ruby, that the data members are seen
> by the child classes. This is a very serious issue, and a claer
> violation of object-orientation.
>
> I think Ruby would be a much better language if the instance
> variables would only live per class and not per hierarchy...

I'm not sure what you mean -- do you mean class variables?


David

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