Re: Re: [PEPr] Comment on RFC::ProtectedMembers

Aidan Lister wrote:

for b) - I guess it's up to the programmer to decide. - If you decide to make something protected, you are enforcing a usage requirement. In the authors view should it be allowable for an extended class to decrease the protection? - Yes: = use public syntax, No: = use private syntax.

But then you have some code with prefixes and some without and the developer/user have no idea what they mean. If you want to make prefixing up to the author, then make prefixing private vars optional as well.

Private var prefixing should definitely be left up to the author. It affects absolutely no one else. Hans