Op 2005-09-30, Fredrik Lundh schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Steve Holden wrote: > >>> 1) Allow keywords like private (or implemetation) to mark certain >>> variables, functions or classes as an implementation detail. >>> Personnally I would prefer the opposite such as a interface >>> to mark objects which are not private, but that would break too >>> much code. > >> Just an off-hand rejection. > > fyi, an "access" mechanism was added in 1993, was only partially implemented, > was almost immediately deprecated, the supporting code were disabled in 1996, > and all traces were removed from the sources around 1997-89. > > those who don't know history etc etc
What history? If it was only partially implemented and almost immediately deprecated, there can't have been much experience with it. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
