Good point - thank you Sent from my Commodore 64
> On 18 Oct 2017, at 4:36 pm, Prof. Andrew P. Black <bl...@cs.pdx.edu> wrote: > > >> On 18 Oct 2017, at 08:32 , James Ladd <ladd.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> What if accessors were generated but not mutators? >> > > The point is that, once a method exists, there is not way to restrict who can > send a message that will execute it. So if one were forces to generate a > reader method, or a writer method, just to give access to a subclass, then > every object n the system would also gain access. > > Andrew > >
