Ordered Sets

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:20:17 -0300, Scott David Daniels  
<Scott.Daniels at acm.org> escribió:

> (2) Why, oh why, do people feel so comforted adding double_underscores
>      to data structures?  If I want to inherit from your mapping in order
>      to log the attempts to discard a key not actually in the set, I
>      have to either us the nasty name mangling to get at self.__map, or
>      name my subclass OrderedSet and take advantage of a not-guaranteed
>      name mangling.  What on earth makes you unwilling to go with "_map"
>      and credit your code's consumers with a bit of common sense?
>
> Sorry, this latter rant has been building up for a while (spurred on by
> a sojourn into the unittest code where they have the private disease in
> spades.

My commiserations.

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Gabriel Genellina