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sperber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: [Clos and Dylan] > Jost> You can send a message to an object asking it to change its internal > Jost> state. > > These object systems have no concept of "send[ing] a message to an > object," and they can hardly be called unreasonable. Aha. What do :setter and :getter do? -- The created generics are not like slot-set! or slot-get, are they? However, my point was that it is not a good idea to grab the object internals, pass them around and change them later. > Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla Hmm...