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Subject: Re: Encapsulation unpythonic?
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:52:06 -0400
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013, at 3:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> In this toy example, both parties are at fault: the author of Parrot for 
> unnecessary data-hiding of something which is so obviously a useful piece 
> of information and should be part of the public interface,

It may wish to be notified when its name changes, and so have a name
property. The subclass may want to use a variable called _name for some
other purpose. (maybe "name" isn't the best example).

Examples often look pathological when you simplify out the bit that
makes them make sense.

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Random832