On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:27:09 -0000, Paul Rubin
<"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote:
But, if something is done by convention, then departing from the
convention is by definition unconventional. If you do something
unconventional in a program, it could be on purpose for a reason, or
it could be by accident indicating a bug.
I wouldn't violently object to having some means of policing class
or module privacy, but it does have consequences. When it's a
convention, you can break it; when it isn't, you can't, even if
you do have good reason. Add that to the obviousness of the
"leading underscore => private" convention, and I just don't see
a burning need for it, that's all.
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