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To: "K. Ari Krupnikov" <ari@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XML as "passive data" (Re: [xml-dev] The Browser Warsare Dead! Long Live the Browser Wars!)
From: Berend de Boer <berend@xsol.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:29:31 +1300
Cc: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, xml-dev <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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K. Ari Krupnikov wrote:

>I disagree. Making something private marks it as unimportant to the
>user (who, as the saying goes, might be you in three months).
>
No, making something private is mainly a hack by languages that don't 
have class invariants. Visibility of features to clients comes secondary 
here.

Regards,

Berend. (-:

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