From: "(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: 'private' and Privacy
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:25:10 +0100
Date: 2009-07-08T16:25:10+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C67A78E6.11C396%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 843a36b0-041d-4826-98b4-0fbcb1a4d287@d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com
On 08/07/2009 03:48, in article
843a36b0-041d-4826-98b4-0fbcb1a4d287@d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com, "Rick"
<rickduley@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have never fathomed out why we declare entities in packages to be
> 'private' and then have to go and tell the world what is in them. I
> would assume that 'private' has something to do with 'information
> hiding' yet we expose what is 'private'.
In this context 'private' is a technical property. It means that the
following details are hidden from client code, not from a human reader.
It is not clear how the latter restriction might be imposed.
White-on-white pixels? Invisible printer ink? 8-)
(Yes, I know about LIS and its triple package components.)
--
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk
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2009-07-08 2:48 'private' and Privacy Rick
2009-07-08 2:48 ` stefan-lucks
2009-07-08 6:51 ` Gautier write-only
2009-07-08 12:47 ` Ludovic Brenta
2009-07-08 15:25 ` (see below) [this message]
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