Re: Stupid Newbie Question

>>>>> "John" == John Rudd <[email protected]> writes:

John> 1) Methods are always public

John> 2) Variables are always private (and in this case that means that other
John> instances may not view the instance variables of an object; I don't
John> recall whether the class can see the ivars of its instances but I'm
John> pretty sure it can't).

No, an instance owns its ivars, so nobody touches it.  However, the
class for an instance can define a new method which of course acts
"within" the instance.

And there's always the system primitives used by the debugger (and
for other reflection), with names like instVarAt: and instVarAt:put:.
Anybody can send them!

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