Newbie Q: Class Privacy (or lack of)

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Ray wrote:
> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>>> I'd rather let a machine to do that. Wasn't computer created for tasks
>>> like this? (No, not really. But...)
>> There's obviously a trade-off between 'security' and flexibility. As I
>> said, I do make lots of typo too, but OTOH the edit/test cycle in Python
>> is usually so short that such errors are not a problem for me - they're
>> caught almost immediatly.
> 
> Actually Bruno,  don't you think that the notion of flexibility in
> Python comes at the expense of "security" is simply due to the fact
> that the syntax of "screw up" is exactly the same as the syntax of "I
> mean it this way and I do want it"?

(patient) Doctor, it hurts when I do this...
(doctor) Then don't do it.

!-)

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bruno desthuilliers
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