On Tuesday, December 7, 2004, at 04:50 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Rich Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:AFAIK the conventions used are implicit and not documented, either in the code or elsewhere. The 'private' aspect is documented only in a few of the *P.h headers and the absence of any 'public' declarations implies public unless specified otherwise. I agree that the pattern used for the most part matches that of basic opaque object programming (aka data abstraction/hiding for C)--but it isn't stated anywhere.
Eh.. Welcome to the world of open source projects that have had multiple generations of developers.
But now it's on the record; so I'm happy :-)
Oh, if documentation in email is sufficient, you didn't search well enough. I'm certainly this was mentioned on the -devel list several years ago.
Man, that's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. It's not that it's an email
answer, it's that it's an _authoritative_ answer--and certainly more authoritative
than any inference I could come up with.
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