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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Ambiguity and Access Control
Message-ID: <10160@alice.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 89 15:50:19 GMT
References: <4051@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM>
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In article <4051@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM>, dsouza@mcc.com [Desmond D'Souza] writes:

> In 2.0, is ambiguity checked independently (before) access control.
> If so, WHY ?

For one thing, it makes debugging much easier if the language
has the property that

	making every member of a class public
	does not affect the behavior of the program.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com