On Feb 27, 2007, at 22:05 , Blake wrote:
Greetings,
I'm trying to fill in the gaps in my Smalltalk knowledge and so am
going through some of the free books (thanks, Steph!). Right now
I'm looking at "Smalltalk By Example" where it talks about the
absence of private messages. (I've run up against methods that were
private I've needed so much in other langauges that I'm not a big
fan of the concept, but that aside...)
Anyway, it suggests using a my- prefix for privates and an fr- for
friends (or "protected", I guess).
Thoughts?
I've never seen a "fr" prefix, and seldomly a "my". To emphasize
privacy, "private" seems to be the most common prefix (just check a
regular image).
There is also a private prefix that is even enforced by the compiler:
"pvt". It will only allow to send this to "self". This should only be
used in highly sensitive places, if at all.
- Bert -
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