Re: Confessions of an "OO Foreigner"

From: Donald Tees (donald_tees_at_nospam.sympatico.ca)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 08:26:39 -0500

William M. Klein wrote:
> Donald,
> When you can use that syntax is "medium" restricted. The following is from
> the Standard:
>
> "8.4.2.9 Object property
> Object properties provide a special syntax to get information out of and pass
> information back into an object. The mechanisms for accessing object properties
> are get property methods and set property methods. A get property method is a
> method explicitly defined with the GET PROPERTY phrase or a method implicitly
> generated for a data item described with the PROPERTY clause; a set property
> method is a method explicitly defined with the SET PROPERTY phrase or a method
> implicitly generated for a data item described with the PROPERTY clause."
>

You seem to be saying you can only do it that way if you write the code
to do it that. Well, yes. I am not sure I get your point. Isn't that
true of every piece of code since adam bootstrapped eve?

Donald