From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2002-11-09T11:55:33+09:00 Subject: Re: Making Instace Variables Private/Local Hi, In message "Re: Making Instace Variables Private/Local" on 02/11/09, William Djaja Tjokroaminata writes: |Do you have any technical reason for this? (I am trying to learn OO from |you.) Or is it just a dogma or style? Actually inheritance is a very heavy relationship between classes. Once you've decided to inherit from other class, you have to know inside of superclass anyway. matz.