> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Scott David Daniels > > This is close to what I meant. I dislike properties that don't behave > as if they were attributes.
Not exactly sure what that means. Seems there is a lot to this topic. I get to the fact that there is a Uniform Access Principle - with some authority behind it. """ The Uniform Access Principle, as published in Bertrand Meyer's Object-Oriented Software Construction, states that "All services offered by a module should be available through a uniform notation, which does not betray whether they are implemented through storage or through computation." It is described further with "Although it may at first appear just to address a notational issue, the Uniform Access principle is in fact a design rule which influences many aspects of object-oriented design and the supporting notation. It follows from the Continuity criterion; you may also view it as a special case of Information Hiding." """ I guess I am intuitively anti-Meyerist. And am hoping he is quite wrong in the assessment that "information hiding" is a base requirement for information science. ;) Kirby seems comfortable in the Meyerist camp. But I feel my anti-Meyerist sentiments are somehow bound to my pro-Python sentiments. So am having trouble with my Meyerist Python friend's stance. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
