Re: ARGH!

2009-02-20 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Jonathan Rockway j...@jrock.us [2009-02-19 20:20]: In general, whenever Java does something, you actually want the opposite. The Perl way is no better. What you really want is to make sure that people can get at innards if they are deliberately trying to, but will stay off each others’ toes

Re: ARGH!

2009-02-20 Thread Jonathan Rockway
* On Fri, Feb 20 2009, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: A great bonus is that while messing around in an object’s internals outside your own package is easy to do, there’s some pretty repulsive syntactic salt associated with it – as it should be. A great bonus? Easy things should be easy. You

Re: ARGH!

2009-02-20 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Jonathan Rockway j...@jrock.us [2009-02-20 21:15]: A great bonus? Easy things should be easy. Typing out a fully qualified package name is difficult? Huh. You shouldn't need syntactic salt to prevent yourself from writing bad code. You should avoid writing bad code because it's bad. Have