naming convention for internal methods

David Faure faure at kde.org
Fri Mar 16 09:24:26 GMT 2007


On Friday 16 March 2007, Richard Moore wrote:
> On 3/15/07, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > note that this is, of course, not about legitimate protected: interfaces; this
> > is about stuff that -should- be private or at least not an exported symbol
> > but for whatever reason can't be. in other words, uncommon and exceptional
> > instances.
> 
> Perhaps we should look at such cases - after all, how many times
> should a method be marked internal but still visible?

Happens in many ksycocafactories for instance, because the derived classes in kded
need to call internal stuff in the factories, so those are public exported symbols.

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