Re: Is there 'private' in namespace?
Peng Yu <PengYu.UT@gmail.com> wrote in news:c8a3348d-4e73-4aa1-afdd-
f07f3402df36@k36g2000pri.googlegroups.com:
Hi Joe,
You completely understand me. I didn't know the appropriate word
should be 'module' before you told me.
What I need is to refactor my code a more or less mechanical way,
which can be automated easily or with minimalist manual editing. As
there is not such support for 'module', to mimic 'module', I'll have
to use a nested class, which makes the refactoring process much
harder. Therefore, a practical resolution is just not to refactor in
this aspect, right?
Yes, this would be correct. There really isn't a mechanical way to get the
protections you desire. There are, of course, ways to specify your
interfaces such that getting access to classes outside the way they are
supposed to be used is obviously wrong. This wouldn't fit under the
category of 'mechanical with minimal manual intervention' though. I think
your best bet is to add some comments to classes that shouldn't be used by
end users. Most end users aren't really out to hurt themselves.
joe
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