On Oct 12, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Kevin Smith <khs4...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem with explicit declarations is that it's going to be burdensome, 
> for no apparent gain.  Consider:  I have a real-world class with 37 
> "internal" methods which are prefixed with an underscore.  I'm not kidding.  
> Explicit declaration means that I have to maintain a list of 37 at-name 
> declarations, separate from the class definition itself, which contributes 
> *no real information* that isn't available elsewhere in the module code.

This is a strong point. My first instinct was similar to Axel's, but you're 
right that classes in particular tend to come with a lot of names. I still need 
to mull this. Thanks for this proposal.

Dave

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