On 12/11/05, Jim Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can we officially mark __private as a mistake. Perhaps: > > - Strongly discourage it in the style guide
This may be acceptable. > - Mark it in the language reference as a deprecated feature > > - Generate deprecation warnings when it is used? > (This might be too much.) I recently asked Guido about name mangling wrt Py3k. He definitely wanted to keep it in. Unless he changed his mind, I doubt he would deprecate it. His rationale was that there needs to be a way to handle name collision with multiple inheritance. n _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
