Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> >   And what if you *do* want a reference to the member variable?
> > You can't?

> No...then you declare a reference to it. For example, Sapphire has two 
> forms of the syntax for declaring variables:

  What if you want to make your class secure so that the user can't
break it?
  This may happen by accident (ie. the user doesn't realize what he
is doing), not necessarily by a malign coder.

> And it does complicate the language. Remember that this is a scene 
> description language...

  That doesn't mean it shouldn't be made secure.

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