I prefer emacs, FreeBSD, curly braces at the end of the line,
camelCase, etc, etc...

On 1/23/06, Chris Muller <afunkyobject at yahoo.com> wrote:
> There is nothing wrong with direct-variable access.
> When I first started Smalltalk I thought dogmatic
> accessors for every single instance variable was a
> good thing, now I have learned how much clutter and
> violation of encapsulation it causes.  Of course, it
> seems to be pretty much they do on most Java
> projects..
>
> For Morphic in particular, look how many methods we
> have in the API and rendered in the browsers.  Less is
> more.  Direct-variable access is an upgrade, not a
> downgrade.
>
>  - Chris
>
> > Message: 15
> > Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:21:33 +0100
> > From: Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire at ext.cri74.org>
> > Subject: Evilness object oriented approach in Morph
> > To: Squeak Devel
> > <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> > Message-ID: <43D36ABD.80801 at ext.cri74.org>
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> >
> > I have realized that many of the Morph method does
> > not use instance
> > variable accessor but direct access to the instance
> > variable.
> > One may think this improve the efficiency of the
> > method but in the other
> > hand its downgrade (or just break) the oriented
> > object efficiency of
> > thus objets.
> > Is refactoring the code of the Moprh methods
> > something to be considered?
> >
> > Hilaire
>
>
>