Re: Moving towards a class system package proposal

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Jan 23, 2005, at 20:17, Mark Hamburg wrote:

> I think I'd rather worry about how to make
> encapsulation work well

What about:

"If you do not want to access something inside an object, just do not 
do it."
-- Roberto Ierusalimschy, December 2003
http://www.lua.org/pil/16.4.html

For instance, in Objective-C, everything is totally accessible to 
anyone. But... one accesses undocumented methods/ivars at their own 
risk. This seems to be quite reasonable :)

Explicit "encapsulation" is not that useful in practice. It's more of a 
good practice than anything else (e.g. protecting the innocents from 
themselves).

Cheers

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