Yes, you need to trust that the person in charge of the inside is doing what you expect. Which sometimes you only find out if he tells you what he&#39;s doing, because he may not know or care what you expect.<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Keith J. Schultz <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:schultzk@uni-trier.de">schultzk@uni-trier.de</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Don,<div><br></div><div>Are we talking OOP and encapsulation here?</div><div><br></div><div>Then you only should know what goes in and what comes out!</div><div><br></div><div>regards</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>Keith.</div><div><br><div><div>Am 07.02.2012 um 01:00 schrieb don kretz:</div><div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote type="cite">Unless, of course, it is intended that you not know, and you should assume<div>
it&#39;s a black box and what it does and how it does it isn&#39;t anything you should</div><div>count on in the future. Which is a legitimate approach; but it should be</div>
<div>made explicit.<br><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:57 PM, don kretz <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dakretz@gmail.com" target="_blank">dakretz@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

One shouldn&#39;t need to examine the source code to anyone&#39;s program to<div>find out what it does. Which could be something else entirely tomorrow.</div><div><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:53 PM, don kretz <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dakretz@gmail.com" target="_blank">dakretz@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Some of the Publish-On-Demand services recommend you do exactly<div>that. And their requirements are quite similar.<div>


<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Jim Adcock <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jimad@msn.com" target="_blank">jimad@msn.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>&gt;If I would follow your way of arguing things lets all just take one of the<br>
most widely used formats on the planet docx!<br>
<br>
</div>Actually a better idea than most floated here.<br>
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