Hi Don,

Are we talking OOP and encapsulation here?

Then you only should know what goes in and what comes out!

regards
Keith.

Am 07.02.2012 um 01:00 schrieb don kretz:

Unless, of course, it is intended that you not know, and you should assume
it's a black box and what it does and how it does it isn't anything you should
count on in the future. Which is a legitimate approach; but it should be
made explicit.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:57 PM, don kretz <dakretz@gmail.com> wrote:
One shouldn't need to examine the source code to anyone's program to
find out what it does. Which could be something else entirely tomorrow.


On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:53 PM, don kretz <dakretz@gmail.com> wrote:
Some of the Publish-On-Demand services recommend you do exactly
that. And their requirements are quite similar.


On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Jim Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
>If I would follow your way of arguing things lets all just take one of the
most widely used formats on the planet docx!

Actually a better idea than most floated here.

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