Quoth thmpsn....@gmail.com: > Anyway, it doesn't matter. We're losing the point here. The point is > that language support for private access, by disallowing user access > to private data, provides an unambiguous information hiding mechanism > which encourages encapsulation. Python's approach, however, which is > only a naming convention rather than a language feature, merely TRUSTS > the programmer not to break encapsulation. And sure, if we're all good > programmers, everything will go well and we'll end up with an > organized application. But the danger is still there: at any given > time, we COULD break encapsulation!
You, sir, should be programming in some language other than Python. --RDM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
