Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!looking!funny-request From: tatlow@dash.dlb5.dec.com (Tom Tatlow) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: A pretty good definition of "friends"... Keywords: computer, smirk, sexual Message-ID: Date: 19 Jan 91 11:30:04 GMT Lines: 29 Approved: funny@looking.on.ca From an textbook on object-oriented programming discussing encapsulation--the hiding of details of an implementation: (...) C++ offers even more flexible control over the visibility of member objects and member functions. Specifically, members may be placed in the public, private, or protected parts of a class. Members declared in the public parts are visible to all clients; members declared in the private parts are fully encapsulated; and members declared in the protected parts are visible only to the class itself and its subclasses. C++ also supports the notion of *friends*: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts. -Grady Booch "Object Oriented Design with Applications" ================================================================== Tom Tatlow "The Question" Digital Equipment Corporation, AI Technology Center -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA If you mail to original@looking.on.ca, it makes sure that your joke is tagged as your original work, and thus eligible for the RHF comedy awards. Always attribute the source of a joke, whether it's you, or somebody else.