Private methods

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Oct 10 12:13:44 EDT 2012


On 10/10/2012 16:56, Ramchandra Apte wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:38:04 UTC+5:30, Roy Smith  wrote:
>> Public: I hereby declare that this method or attribute is part of the
>> promised never to change interface of this class.  I might possibly
>> break that promise at some point in the future, but if I do, you have
>> the right to bitch and whine about it, and I'm morally obligated to at
>> least pretend I care.
>>
>> Private: I hereby declare that this method or attribute is something I
>> needed to have for my own purposes, and is officially hidden inside my
>> kimono.  Like all things inside my kimono, you may speculate about their
>> existence all you want, but you touch them at your own peril.  I may
>> change them at some point in the future, and while you can bitch and
>> whine about it all you want, I'm not listening.
>
> Uhum. Language please.
>

What language?  Further the original was readable, your use of CrapMail 
made life difficult until I stripped the superfluous newlines out.  Is 
it really so awkward to equip yourself with a semi-decent mail reader? 
Like Thunderbird, hint, hint :)

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.




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