Rainer Weikusat <rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> writes: [...]
> This mechanism as certain tendency make C++ developers go bezerk with a > particular type of strong rage, but it's entirely usuable in practice, > although more work than having it all laid out for oneself. In the interest of fairness: This 'more work' of course translates to 'more opportunities for getting stuff wrong' and there's the additional problem of "get away with it"-ism, especially in closed source software: At least some people will - either based on principle[*] or because it saves them work or they at least believe it will - break every 'softly imposed' rule the believe to be able to get away with breaking. Hence, unless the language/ compiler enforces access restrictions to supposed-to-be internal-use only members of a data structure, people will ignore them. [*] I've actually encountered people who refused to comply with technical documentation on the ground that they aren't taking orders from strangers ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
