Pressures for Substantially New Squeaks
Stefan Matthias Aust
sma at kiel.netsurf.de
Sat Feb 13 10:49:58 UTC 1999
Andrew C Greenberg made a very good point about the necessity of
modularization for the success of an open source project. I second that.
He also recognized that for modularity encapsulation features are required.
Now privacy and name spaces are one way to provide this encapsulation.
What other ways exist?
Using a changes browser to check whether module A and module B will work
together with my module C (an explosion of combinations btw) and fixing the
problems manually cannot be the solution. We need a mechanism which
prevents the problems before they even arise.
Python, btw has a powerful module concept. IIRC it has also a convention
by documenting public interface methods and private implementation methods.
bye
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Stefan Matthias Aust // Don't talk. Just doIt.
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