Hi Doug:

yes, I like your uniform solution.

-- Karl

From dougo@ccs.neu.edu Fri Sep  5 15:37:29 1997
From: Doug Orleans <dougo@ccs.neu.edu>
To: Karl Lieberherr <lieber@ccs.neu.edu>
Cc: dem@ccs.neu.edu
Subject: Re: interface of Demeter/Java class

Karl Lieberherr writes:
 > Crista asked yesterday: what is in the interface of a Demeter/Java class?
 > Do we view traversal methods to be part of it. Traversal methods
 > can only be used local to the class, it seems, to make adaptive methods.
 > Those adaptive methods, if they are public, are in the interface.
 > And so are the public verbatim methods.

I see no reason to treat traversal methods any different from other
types of methods; i.e. you should be able to declare them public if
you like.  It's just an oversight that I don't currently allow this; I
will fix it.

--Doug