> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Scott David Daniels > > I'd propose two reasons why properties are so successful. > > The first explanation comes from eXtreme Programming. One big goal of > XP is to stop wasting time doing "big design up front."
Then my situation is a bit ironic. What I don't seem to have realized - at least to my own satisfaction - is some rational scheme for the use of properties. They are used - somewhere in the range from haphazardly to intuitively. So I am left to refactor working code to give some scheme to my use of properties. And since this refactoring is coming at a fairly late stage of design, I don't feel the same need to leave my XP options open to the extent that I might had I thought more thoroughly about the use of properties earlier in the process. So where I come out on the use of properties now might not be the same as where I would have come out at some different point. Why do I find this unsatisfying? As an API matter, I find myself liking the clue that "()" provides as to whether one is accessing something designed be determined dynamically. So I find myself leaning towards the option of making the use of properties go away in PyGeo. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
