I think the reason they're not private/protected is to make it easier to write test cases that inspect the values of those variables.
There was no reason to make them public, since normally adaptors are only managed via the fairly narrow Adaptor interface. What's the context for your question? Is there some use case you have in mind that justifies some other scope? --Ari On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Paul Tremblett <ptrembl...@swva.net> wrote: > I was wondering what the reason was behind assigning the default package > scope to the member variable toWatch and to the method sendFile. > > Thanks, > Paul Tremblett -- Ari Rabkin asrab...@gmail.com UC Berkeley Computer Science Department