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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Derived can't access protected members of base's
Message-ID: <260904D1.6918@tct.uucp>
Date: 22 Mar 90 17:01:05 GMT
References: <56.UUL1.3#5109@pantor.UUCP> <10593@alice.UUCP>
Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig):
>	class Foo {
>	protected:
>		int i;
>	};
>
>	class dummy: public Foo { friend void clobber(Foo&, int); };
>
>Now `dummy' can get at any protected member of Foo, and so can its
>friends.  By making `clobber' a friend, I open Foo up to it, and
>completely without permission from the author of Foo.

I wouldn't say "completely without permission."  The author of Foo
did, after all, mark "i" as "protected" instead of "private."
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT   <chip%tct@ateng.com>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>
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