Re: Code guidelines, state of C++ compilers used, and general C++ comments

Subject: Re: Code guidelines, state of C++ compilers used, and general C++ comments
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 21:04:58 CDT

At 2:17 AM +0100 5/9/00, Mike Nordell wrote:
>12. Add: Never EVER put a member variable under any other access
>specification than private. Derived classes have NO business of probing
>the baseclass' private parts (pun intended).

        I disagree! There are numerous examples of where protected
member variables are perfectly acceptable and correct. However,
public members are definitely a bad thing!

LDR 

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