----- Original Message ----- From: Kirby Urner <urnerk@qwest.net> Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:34 pm Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] quantum instance

I'm in no way persuaded that you have some special insight into what the property feature is "really" intended to provide, based on some supposedlyclose reading of Guido's examples. It's there for the same reason it's in other OO languages, to help coders build and maintain APIs that make sense to their users.

You win. But only in the sense that you get the last word. Even *I'm* tired of the thread. Let's move on. Art