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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: pointers & OOP
Date: 1999/05/07
Date: 1999-05-07T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7gv765$ioc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3731fa3d.12295232@news.pacbell.net

In article <3731fa3d.12295232@news.pacbell.net>,
  tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote:
> >Use parent-child structuring.  Internal_Updating is a protected
> >operation.  I would still consider this to be a one to one mapping,
> >although I don't use parent-child packages unless I have to.
>   If you'll allow child packages as "separate packages" it certainly
> makes "1-1 packages/classes" a lot less draconian.  OTOH, suppose you
> really wanted procedure Internal_Updating to be visible to Son and
> Daughter but *absolutely not* to any other package masquerading as
> Parent.Prodigal_Son.  Then you'd be forced to put Son and Daughter
> inside the same package as Root (unless you went to a lot of trouble
> with "doorman" routines).

That still doesn't protect against Parent.Prodigal_Son, unless you also put
that common routine in the package body.

--
T.E.D.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-05-07  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-05-01  0:00 pointers & OOP Matthew Heaney
1999-05-01  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-03  0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-03  0:00   ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-04  0:00     ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-05-04  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-04  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-04  0:00     ` Mike Silva
1999-05-05  0:00     ` John Robinson
1999-05-05  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-05  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-05  0:00         ` John Robinson
1999-05-06  0:00           ` Brian Rogoff
1999-05-07  0:00             ` dennison
1999-05-07  0:00               ` Brian Rogoff
1999-05-10  0:00                 ` dennison
1999-05-11  0:00                   ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-05-11  0:00                     ` dennison
1999-05-10  0:00             ` John Robinson
1999-05-14  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-14  0:00                 ` David Botton
1999-05-14  0:00           ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-14  0:00             ` Ed Falis
1999-05-05  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-08  0:00         ` Ehud Lamm
1999-05-06  0:00       ` Simon Wright
1999-05-06  0:00         ` John Robinson
1999-05-08  0:00           ` Simon Wright
1999-05-10  0:00             ` John Robinson
1999-05-06  0:00       ` Tom Moran
1999-05-06  0:00         ` John Robinson
1999-05-06  0:00           ` Tom Moran
1999-05-07  0:00             ` dennison
1999-05-07  0:00             ` dennison [this message]
1999-05-07  0:00             ` dennison
1999-05-10  0:00             ` John Robinson
1999-05-14  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-05  0:00     ` Francois Godme
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1999-05-01  0:00 Tom Moran
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