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Re: non-public classes in packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart)
Tue Jun 6 18:18:02 1995
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:35:53 -0700
From: pelegri@calterra.Eng.Sun.COM (Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
| avh explains that private/public/protected for classes/methods works
| like in C++: they affect accesability, not visibility.
OK; not my prefered semantics, but there is an argument for it.
| Then he says...
|
| private classes/methods/variables should not pollute the name space.
I don't get this. It *is* polluting my name space. I cannot use the
name of a method that is private because I might create an illegal ambiguity.
Am I missing something?
- eduardo
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