Will python never intend to support private, protected and public?

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 2005-09-30, Steve Holden schreef <steve at holdenweb.com>:
> Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> Op 2005-09-30, Steve Holden schreef <steve at holdenweb.com>:
>> 
>>>Antoon Pardon wrote:
>>>
>>>>Op 2005-09-29, Bill Mill schreef <bill.mill at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>But, if your users can't figure out that they shouldn't be changing
>>>>>the variable called t._test__i without expecting side effects, what do
>>>>>you think of the users of your class?
>>>>>
>>>>>Python is for consenting adults.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>No it is not. Consenting means you had the choice. Python doesn't
>>>>give you the choice not to consent. Unless of course you write
>>>>it as a C-extension, then you can hide all you want.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Good grief, the ultimate choice is to use Python because you like it, or 
>>>not to use it because you don't. Enough with the picking every available 
>>>nit, please. Consent or stop complaining :-)
>> 
>> 
>> This is IMO not a nit. IMO people are redefining words. We are also
>> talking within a certain context. When people use this slogan, they
>> don't mean that people have the choice to not use python.
>> 
> Quite true, but people do none the less have that choice. Some days I 
> wish a few more would exercise it.

Yes they have that choice and the problem is that if too many make that
choice, python wouldn't evolve. A lot of progress python made, is
because people who didn't like some aspects of it, discussed them and
either implemeted a change themselves or got someone else interested
enough to implement a change.

-- 
Antoon Pardon