Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Visual Smalltalk v3.0 by Digitalk for OS/2, copyright 1994 Date: 15 Nov 2025 09:09:10 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 17 Expires: 1 Jun 2026 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <0k7RQ.387$P1Z9.49@fx14.iad> <10f8pgu$385vs$11@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de JzMkknJ/ak8S4NnBi3TcIQlFxd2lyv61IFVKquWOJ8+E5r Cancel-Lock: sha1:3QjpKXT4HBs55/irl72nb/fORCk= sha256:A3TVPP1cLts4KerwySfoaya1OIyrMVMD9neN3QUsq5s= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2025 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:232160 songbird wrote or quoted: > well, my perspective is that every created object seems to be >accessible through the references from the main program and not Only if the object is passed back (from a function) to main intentionally by "return" or something. Objects are usually "isolated" in the sense, that they are usually bound to local names or fields which are not accessible outside of their function or class, respectively. In Python direct access from the outside to fields can be denied to some extend, though not against a malicious party. But code blocks are not objects in Python as they are in Smalltalk.