From: Emiliano <emile@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T15:04:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23142] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

Alan Chen wrote:

> All large scale development languages allow access to private data,
> its a matter of how much pain you want to put the developer through if
> they elect to access a non-public interface.  FWIW, I suspect that it
> would be easy to write a module to disable the send and method
> functions in a class. (or provide a warning if you'd prefer)

But it still wouldn't be the default behaviour. Having class-private
data available publicly by default isn't correct in my book. You have
to choose what to make part of your public interface. IMO, of course.

Emile