Nestmates

Vlad Ureche vlad.ureche at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 09:35:24 UTC 2016


Thank you for your answers Brian!
Indeed, the current model is easy to understand and reason about, which is
the most important aspect. And it maps well to Java source code.

Regarding Scala, the main problem is the granularity: setting the
visibility of each method individually goes far beyond the curly brace
encapsulation model. I think the only reasonable way short of having a
Scala VM is to keep generating accessors (or, as you suggested, making
members public and reasoning about the accessibility at language level).

Regarding Peter's question, I assume the reason you want to have a top of
the nesting hierarchy is because you need to dynamically add new nestmates,
which is easier to do in one place than in all nestmates. Right?

Thanks,
Vlad


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