Thoughts on encapsulation

[RupertAvery]

Everything in Bite is public by default. Making everything private does make the language seem less "simple" by enforcing encapsulation.

I think enforcing encapsulation makes it a better "modern-ish" and more "serious" language.

[Maximilian-Winter]

I'm already parsing private and public modifiers and make everything private by default. But right now this isnt implemented.

[Maximilian-Winter]

So you can access everything right now

[Maximilian-Winter]

I'm planning on adding this soon

[vorov2]

There is always a Python way to do it, e.g. to use special notation for privates like __private__. Objectively speaking this is still as public as everything else and not encapsulated, but you also state by this notation that it is not included in a contract, therefore code that directly references these "privates" can break in future. That is an approach that allows to "keep it simple".