api stability
Aaron Bentley
aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Tue Dec 20 05:10:53 GMT 2005
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Robert Collins wrote:
| __foo -> private to me
| _foo -> private to me and subclasses
| foo -> public.
|
| Note that _foo is therefor a public symbol if the class is public.
I don't understand this logic. If _foo is private to me and subclasses,
why would it also be public?
Wherever I've used _foo, I've intended to warn users that foo was not
guaranteed to be supported, but use it if you must.
Aaron
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