> 
> If the debugger's variable pane exposes it, it's misleading if it doesn't 
> somehow indicate that it's not for the developer to access.

It is there for the developer to access -- when debugging.  Might even be 
useful. I sometimes find the information useful when trying to understand how 
something is put together.  But don’t use it for development. 

> At the least, it's confusing, because the docs say it's not supposed to be 
> there, yet there it is.  

The docs say no such thing or did I miss explicit statements that only 
documented methods and properties will ever exist?  I think Ken is correct in 
saying "Their non-presence in the documentation and headers” is what shows them 
as private.  Private is not that same as “not supposed to be there”.
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