I have several questions:
1. As I see parameter passing in Smalltalk is always
call-by-reference, so within a method it is possible to do any
destructive actions over the passed object. Is there a way to
pass/accept a parameter as const so that it won't be changed in the
method.
2. When we pass
1. As I see parameter passing in Smalltalk is always
call-by-reference, so within a method it is possible to do any
destructive actions over the passed object. Is there a way to
pass/accept a parameter as const so that it won't be changed in the
method.
No, not out of the box.
2. When we
On 03.12.2008, at 10:23, Delyan Kalchev wrote:
I have several questions:
Hi! Welcome to a truly object-oriented system, where you might be in
for some surprises :)
1. As I see parameter passing in Smalltalk is always
call-by-reference, so within a method it is possible to do any
Hello Bert and Lukas.
Thank you both for the helpful answers and thanks Bert for the warm welcome.
About the first question: Actually I cannot think of a philosophical
reason to limit the access to an object that the object itself
permits. It seems natural with the encapsulation and now I feel
