Finishing touches
- Slots can be declared as public or private, or left undeclared.
- Change the declaration using the middle-button menu on the slot.
- Public slots are bold, undeclared slots are sans-serif.
- Privacy is not enforced.
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Finishing touches: privacy and comments
You may have noticed that the slots in the lobby or in globals have their names
displayed in a variety of fonts. This is to reflect their intended use.
Any slot in a Self object can be declared as public, private, or otherwise
undeclared. The default is undeclared, and these slots' names are in a sans-serif
font. Public slots are in a bold, serif font, and private slots are in a light, serif font.
Categories are sorted alphabetically by name. Within a category, parent slots
appear before non-parents, and then public slots appear before undeclared slots
which appear before private slots.
The distinction between public and private is purely for documentation. Earlier
versions of Self enforced privacy (allowing only sends to self to locate
private slots) but this scheme was found to be unworkable. We may introduce
some kind of enforcement in a later version, if we can decide on a scheme that
works in practice.
Having installed our accounts in the global namespace, we should designate the
slots as public.
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