--- title: Public Private Partnership | daily.dev description: A humorous code snippet from The Daily WTF shows a property in a concurrency API whose XML doc comment explicitly says it should be private, yet the actual... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/public-private-partnership-soaj8n1x0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Public Private Partnership | daily.dev og:description: A humorous code snippet from The Daily WTF shows a property in a concurrency API whose XML doc comment explicitly says it should be private, yet the actual... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/public-private-partnership-soaj8n1x0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sOaJ8N1X0.png og:image:alt: Public Private Partnership og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Public Private Partnership **[The Daily WTF](https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A humorous code snippet from The Daily WTF shows a property in a concurrency API whose XML doc comment explicitly says it should be private, yet the actual definition declares it public. The commentary jokes that the developer hoped API consumers would read the docs and respect the intent — a hope that is almost certainly misplaced. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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