Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On 12 Mar 2006 17:58:43 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the > following in comp.lang.python: > > > > > Double-underscore methods are rewritten with the class name? That's an > > ugly hack, but remember I'm coming from Perl. If the language doesn't > > pull many other hijinks, that's OK. > > > Compared to a language that added OO by requiring the user to > "bless" things to make it behave as an object, you find name-mangling > for "private" methods to be ugly?
I saw the duplicity in my own post; mai ben rai. :D > I suggest you never look under the hood of a C++ compiler...They > not only name-mangle, but add such crud as type/size codes for arguments > and return value -- all to be able to invoke the correct method due to > overloading. I've heard about the brain damages of C++. Never programmed in it; don't need to. If I were ever forced to program C++ as a result of a career, I think I would probably quit. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
