From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2001-10-25T00:14:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23201] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:04:04PM +0900, Emiliano wrote:
> 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

The funny thing is that it's pretty easy to access private
variables in Python. They just get name mangled, but are still
accessible. 

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