Class Friends

[Jeremy Bowers]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:37:44 +0200, Alex Martelli wrote:

> Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>    ...
>> I've considered a jihad to try and get uses of the double-under
>> mangling removed from the standard library. Maybe once 2.4 is out I'll
>> take this on.
> 
> Count on my support on this: I consider it "something that looked like
> it would be a good idea at the time" (to me, too -- I'm not prescient
> either;-) but didn't really work as well as hoped.

Well, I didn't want to come right out and say it for fear of starting a
flame war, but yeah, I was thinking this really loudly :-)

(At least it is only for *double* underscores; mangling on singles would
have *really* sucked.)