Hi Aaron --

At 08:21 PM 12/4/2004, Aaron Gray wrote:
>If my understanding is right then you cannot send a message to an object 
>passed as a parameter to a method of another class.
>
>Is this correct ?

No. If you have a reference to an object, you can always send it a message. 
Parameter passing is done by reference, as in LISP. This is not always a 
good thing if there are multiple tasks, etc.

>
>What about messages to instance variables ?

Ditto.

>
>Have I lost it, or is this correct ?

It's not correct, but you haven't lost it. It's a reasonable thing to find 
out in any language.

Cheers,

Alan

>
>Aaron
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