Re: Proposal: make init optional

Robert Waldstein wrote:

> TO implement encapsulation is I believe we would all agree a major effort!!

Sorry but I just can't go along with Bob's logic flow here. Let's agree that
doing an Init is not always useful, and can sometimes be a nuisance.  That's one
of the primary reasons that we invented encapsulation! To now argue that
encapsulation is too hard so let's make Init optional seems counterproductive to
me.

Encapsulation in it's full generality may be hard but you could implement just
enough of encapsulation to cover this Init problem, and certainly that would be
easier than all the problems associated with the proposed change to make Init
optional, wouldn't it?

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Ray Denenberg
Library of Congress
rden@loc.gov
202-707-5795

Received on Tuesday, 9 January 2001 12:31:35 UTC