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: 103376,690ce1f62160d05a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,690ce1f62160d05a X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,690ce1f62160d05a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,690ce1f62160d05a X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: sgeos@granicus.if.org (Brendan Sechter) Subject: Re: How to Design an Application Programmers' Interface (API) Date: 2000/08/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 657841259 References: <39921178.819F6DCB@netwood.net> <399386EF.4F2AA3E6@netwood.net> <3996456C.CAD018D5@netwood.net> <3996C42F.2713C90A@flash.net> <3996BFCE.662A8DFC@netwood.net> X-Complaints-To: news@granicus.if.org X-Trace: granicus.if.org 966186256 15751 24.14.172.38 (13 Aug 2000 17:04:16 GMT) Organization: IF Group User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Aug 2000 17:04:16 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-13T17:04:16+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:33:34 +0000, E. Robert Tisdale wrote: >Gregory Pietsch wrote: > >> Of course not. It was never an OOP language. >> >> That's because we C programmers don't even WANT >> any mechanism for hiding the data members. > >They certainly do. Why hide anything? Do not you have the option not to use it? -SG -- With the amount of idiots in this world....I'll have a fun time filtering out the defects =P -Khilent