On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Massimiliano Tomassoli >> A class must support encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. If it >> doesn't, then it isn't a class. The same way, a method is a function that >> belongs to a class and can be public, private or protected. If a function is >> external to an object (i.e. it can't be made private or protected) than it >> isn't a method. > > I'd submit that your definition is too narrow, since it excludes quite > possibly *the* most archetypal of object oriented languages. I speak, of > course, of Smalltalk, which the last time I checked had classes whose fields > were automatically private and methods automatically public
Massimiliano's definition excludes several other OOP languages... :) -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
