Re: [Dev-C++] Question about Classes: Public vs. Private.

"The book" and "p. 120". It sounds like you are talking about a specific
book, but you are not mentioning which. Now, that makes _me_ a bit
confused :)

No, the private members may not be accessed by any code lines outside of
the class. So, if you rename them, or change the data structures for
storing that data, then you know that no code outside of the class will
fail or need to be modified.

If you make changes to public members, then there may be users that
expects the original names/behaviour of these members.

/pwm

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 rus...@ao... wrote:

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> private vs public aspects of member data. The book states that by
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