On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2017-03-14 21:44, William Stein wrote: >> >> I'm in favor of (1) and against (4). I would have named it __pari__ >> in the first place if I thought that was better... >> >> I'm general against double underscore methods entirely, except the >> ones pre-defined by python. > > > Would you care to explain your reasons?
Name mangling to hide data is an ugly hack. Just use a single underscore for private data, and don't call single underscore methods from outside the class.... Any time I've written code using double underscore non-standard methods, I've regretted it. It just feels wrong. -- William -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
