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		dustbunny 68 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Public/protected/private is an unnecessary feature It's telling that you worded this as a writer of an API, not as a consumer. Note that only a consumer of your apis can evaluate how well designed they are.

rk06 68 days ago [–]

Yeah, I am sure that some fo the users may have higher skill set than authors. But majority of users suck at designing. And would add more fuel to the problems. And any refactoring efforts

throw-the-towel 67 days ago | [–]

I think this is not about your skill set, this is about use cases that the author of the library could not anticipate.

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