On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:22:57 -0700, Jason Johnson  
<jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't find it clunky because the methods are so small.  I don't find
> it inconsistent because variables are the only thing that are not
> messages, so if you don't see it in the method declaration it's an
> instance variable.

I pretty much always use accessors. Except, uh, in the accessors  
themselves. Heh. But it strikes me as something that should be  
transparent. I don't see any reason why I should have to write accesors  
that do nothing but provide access.

> But that's just me, this is all so much easier then C++ was.

Well, yeah. Smalltalk is sort of like Democracy....

> No no no.  I don't know PL/I but it's a joke to call what C has
> macros.  That is just search and replace prepossessing nonsense.  A
> lisp-style macro is the full power of the language at compile time.

Yeah, PL/I had that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I