On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 07:39 PM, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
[SNIP]
> Definition: "private":
>
> A "private" attribute is an attribute whose scope is restricted such
> that
> it may be accessed only within the class in which it has been
> declared.
> It is not available
>
>> Note that an alternate definition of "private" is often used, as
>> follows:
>>
>> A "private" attribute is an attribute whose scope is restricted such
>> that
>> it may be accessed only within the class in which it has been
>> declared,
>> OR WITHIN ANY CLASS THAT INHERITS
On Saturday, October 5, 2002, at 09:33 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
>
>
> : Additionally, parentheses have one inconsistency which brackets do
> not:
> : This is the following case, already shown on perl6-language:
> :
> : $a = ();# $a is a list reference with 0 elements
> : $a = (10);
On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 08:23 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> OTOH, Java interfaces have a loophole which is considered a design
> mistake.
> An interface can declare some parts of the interface optional and then
> implementors can decide if they want to implement it or not. The
> u
On Sunday, October 6, 2002, at 01:50 AM, Brent Dax wrote:
> Parens don't construct lists EVER! They only group elements
> syntactically. One common use of parens is to surround a
> comma-separated list, but the *commas* are creating the list, *not* the
> parens!
>
Following this rule would m
On Sunday, October 6, 2002, at 06:17 PM, Daniel B. Boorstein wrote:
[SNIP]
> I think there may be some confusion here. In java, there's no special
> syntax
> to declare a method an optional part of the interface. All concrete
> classes
> that implement the Collection interface still must defi
