May 14, 2009
6:19 p.m.
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Marcus Denker <denker@acm.org> wrote:
In general I am a fan of self-style way of not destinguishing between sends and instvar access. (like NewSpeak, Gilad has some nice blog-posts on why you want message sends for everything).
It's Newspeak, not NewSpeak. Unless you program in SmallTalk. :) The difference in Newspeak is method accessibility control (at least in principle if not in the current implementation), so representation independence doesn't come bundled with exposure of private data. --Vassili