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Re:153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack by johnmaguire2013 on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @07:00PM (#14808748)
This is the design of most high-level scripting languages (e.g. Javascript, PHP, Python, Ruby)...
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Re:153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack by make3 on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @08:09PM (#14809072)
These aren't called "Solidity" and more importantly weren't built specifically to write a financial infrastructure of multiple hundreds of million dollars (though some of these languages are definitely used to manage money now)
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Re:153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack by johnmaguire2013 on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @09:02PM (#14809314)
I was responding to this statement from the parent...

> This would be a stupid decision in any language

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Re:153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack by int_19h on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @10:56PM (#14809750)
Python is a bit different still: it doesn't have visibility specifiers to begin with, everything is public.
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Re:153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack by masklinn on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:26AM (#14819319)
Javascript is the same, AFAIK.
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