hidden methods idea

Dwight Hughes dwighth at ipa.net
Wed Aug 19 18:10:21 UTC 1998


Stephan B. Wessels wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Georg Gollmann wrote:
> >
> > What I meant to say, is that the Browser could simply suppress category
> > names that starts with a dot '.'
> 
>   I get a little fussy when we declare that "dot" is the right way.  One
> person's preference being the case there.
> 
> It's an interesting idea, but what if we went with something more powerful
> where the category is not a string at all but rather a more sophisticated
> object that could, among other things, hold the string name and an attribute
> that declares privacy?  My mind is still not settled about whether the Java/C
> private thing is a good fit but I can see the suitability for "filtering"
> based upon some range of attributes defined by the developer or team.

I would also like to see methods able to "belong" to more than one
category (like "private" _and_ "file i/o" or whatever) and categories
able to have subcategories for organization and filtering.

-- Dwight





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