In C#/Java we can do so with the private keyword, in Python we can use the underscore. I found this discussion on Github, but it’s from 2015. Is the accepted convention to use the underscore? struct Example _this_field_is_private::Int32 this_field_is_public::String end

[image] anon60034542: Is the accepted convention to use the underscore? That’s a pretty common convention in Julia, though by by no means universal.

There is also the option of defining propertynames(x :: Example, private :: Bool).

How do you indicate that a field should be private?

jzr July 27, 2021, 2:41am 2

Some people consider all fields private by default. See Documenting elements of a struct

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