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From: "Richard MacDonald" <macdonaldrj@att.net>
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Subject: Re: Clean Object Class Design -- Circle/Ellipse
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"Graham Perkins" <gperkins@dmu.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:3BC2F23E.72162826@dmu.ac.uk...
> Bob Badour wrote:
> >
> > The solution is very simple: Properly distinguish between value and
> > variable.
>
> .. which most of us do.  ESPECIALLY in smalltalk, which you were
> keen to rant at great length about.  The variable/instance distinction
> could not be clearer.  I've skipped a lot of this thread.  Did you
> ever retract your wild allegations about smalltalk?

No. He continued. His point is valid but only within an
uninteresting and irrelevant definition. Nothing
useful in it. Disappointing.

OTOH, it was a pretty interesting thread before I
pulled it away on this issue. My apologies to the others.