[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:16:02 +1000 > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>Say you have written a class, with a private variable. I decide that I >>need access to that variable, for reasons you never foresaw. > > What if the access to that variable was forbidden for reasons you never > foresaw? What if the class author decide to remove the variable in the next > version of the class, because it's not an interface, but only a part of the > class implementation?
What if the class author removes a non-private variable or changes a method's documented parameters in the next version of the class, because he think it'll work better, or just because he can? People who think that forbidding access to private variables/methods will save themselves from upgrade woes are deluding themselves. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
