On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 08:22:31 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2016-08-31 02:04, Ali Çehreli wrote: > >> P.S. While I'm on my soapbox, I've started to think private is >> overrated anyway. A system language should allow to bypass that >> protection. private should be a recommendation only. > > I agree. Let private stop you from access symbols though the regular > ways, but let reflection bypass.
Just like the JVM and .NET. And Python's double underscore name mangling, which is more to highlight that you're doing something funky. And Dart's mirrors. And `instance_variable_get` in Ruby.
