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: 103376,8ff80a74f45b5cd3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,8ff80a74f45b5cd3 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Visibility and access to "public" attributes Date: 1997/09/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 269614843 References: Distribution: world Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-09-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article 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 -- Jon Anthony OMI, Belmont, MA 02178, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari