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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