> > and you can pass information to an
> > object, as long as what you are passing does not correspond to an
> > actual property of an object, then I definitely understand.
>
>That is correct.
It doesn't matter.
The method is public, and whether it implements itself by fetching
private data, or making some calculation is immaterial, to the world
outside of its "implementation hiding" shield.
As long as you don't have a public method saying "hey, I reveal
private information!".
If an object wants to provide access to some kind of "state", then it
does so with a public method. This state, may happen to be directly
represented by a specific property right now, but later that may
change, and the world wont ever know nor care. That's the difference
between the *public* method, and the *private* property.
Jakob
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