Re: SERVER: Verbing properties

• Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:01:03 PST
• From:
  tom@mvision.com (Tom Ritchford)
• Reply-To:
  tom@mvision.com
• In-Reply-To: <96Apr3.012531pst.99462@roo.parc.xerox.com> (message from Vijay Saraswat on Wed, 3 Apr 1996 01:25:20 PST)

>From: Vijay Saraswat <saraswat@parc.xerox.com>
>
>I think verbing properties is a bad idea.
>
[snip]
>
>When I run my code and it accesses your property, I know that
>none of your code ran ... I know that as long as my current task
>does not suspend, and I do not invoke verbs on you, the data I
>read will remain unchanged.

[snip]

I was undecisive until I read this posting... I'd now agree
that verbing properties is a bad idea.

    /t

Tom Ritchford     tom@mvision.com, tom@weirdos.com

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