Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Private methods Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <1krpbz9.1wge3j11123k2vN%real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk> <1krpdak.u0qy9e1a4knspN%real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk> <490af038-a719-4f1e-aa76-dac96efb6b71@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1349886642 17663 64.122.56.22 (10 Oct 2012 16:30:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:30:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:31091 On 2012-10-10, Mark Lawrence wrote: > 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? Perhaps he didn't like the kimono metaphor? I always though the kimono metaphore as commonly used by MBA/sales types was a little unseemly (but then most of what those types say is, regardless of language or metaphor). > 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 :) You're tilting at windmills. Just give up and filter out all postings with a messageid ending in '@googlegroups.com'. I find that solves all sorts of problems... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ! Now I understand at advanced MICROBIOLOGY and gmail.com th' new TAX REFORM laws!!