From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Visibility and access to "public" attributes
Date: 1997/09/02
Date: 1997-09-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Sep2180547@alexandria.organon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EFv4p4.ME2@syd.csa.com.au
In article <EFv4p4.ME2@syd.csa.com.au> nospam@thanks.com.au (Don Harrison) writes:
> Why objectively? Because in Eiffel, the attribute is made available
> in one step and in Ada, two steps. Less steps implies directness
> which, in turn, implies simplicity, so we can conclude that the
> Eiffel mechanism is both more direct and simpler.
One step versus two steps sounds objective. The rest here is not.
> It seems that the meaning of the word "subjective" is, shall we
> say, subjective.
Probably.
/Jon
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1997-08-29 0:00 Visibility and access to "public" attributes card
1997-08-29 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
[not found] ` <JSA.97Aug29190453@alexandria.organon.com>
1997-08-30 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-08-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-01 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-08-30 0:00 ` Darren New
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Gavin Collings
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Gavin Collings
1997-09-03 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
[not found] ` <01bcba0e$418f7380$2001df0a@gavinspc>
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Peter Horan
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1997-09-02 0:00 card
1997-08-29 0:00 card
1997-08-29 0:00 ` Ted Velkoff
1997-08-30 0:00 ` Darren New
1997-08-30 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
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