Moving objects...

Josh Flowers josh at i33.com
Fri Jul 23 18:28:05 UTC 1999


> This is making me think instead of work also. But I am a little  
confused by
> your terminology. Can I trouble you to define what "state" and  
"behavior"
> methods are? I'm not sure what you mean by them, alas.
>

Essentially state methods are what we call accessor methods.  I  
changed my term to state, because it seemed to make more sense, but  
maybe not.  What I meant be state methods was methods which only  
dealt with the percieved state of the object.  Any method that simply  
gets or sets a value (real or derived) I would consider a state  
method.  I would term all others (without having thought long enough  
or hard enough about 'all') behavior methods.  Behavior might also be  
the wrong term, but I haven't spent much time looking at what types  
of methods make up the (large) non-state group.





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