From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,8ff80a74f45b5cd3 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8ff80a74f45b5cd3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Visibility and access to "public" attributes Date: 1997/08/30 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 269096864 Distribution: world References: <872873007.3110@dejanews.com> Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-08-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle) writes: > I've changed the name and type of the attribute, and the public > interface has remained the same. > > If this isn't what you were talking about, could you explain? No it is not - you didn't change the name. A is still called "A", but I don't believe that such a situation (literally changing the name) is something that is likely to be even a small deal in practice. /Jon -- Jon Anthony OMI, Belmont, MA 02178, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari