2013/11/23 Eliot Miranda <[email protected]>
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> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> imo, a better term to use for it would be 'private class' , because 
>> anonymous is a bit fuzzy.
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> I disagree.  Anonymous classes is the term that has been used for over two 
> decades.  It means, literally, a class that has no name because it is not in 
> Smalltalk (or in a top-level environment if the dialect has namespaces).  
> This is not at all fuzzy.  Private class means something quite different, a 
> class that is private to some environment, e.g. a class nested within another 
> class as occurs in SmalltalkAgents or Newspeak.

+1

Anonymous = without name.
There's not much to add to it.


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