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Re: Some questions about GOOPS and CLOS in general

Mikael Djurfeldt writes:

 > Either you want an accessor (read/write) which is the standard case,
 > or you want a getter (read only).  The only setter case is equivalent
 > to not having the slot at all.

although this is reasonable, it is also reasonable that an object has
write-only slots.  eg., w1c bits in hw.  for such things i think it is
easiest to model w/ a write-only slot.  perhaps supporting write-only
slots makes goops design simpler?

regards,
thi
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