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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: MEMBER ACCESS
Message-ID: <758@taumet.com>
Date: 4 Jun 91 15:46:21 GMT
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Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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svb@cs.purdue.EDU (Stephan Bechtolsheim) writes:

>As far as I am concerned
>	A.get_x()
>doesn't read as well as does
>	A.x

You can name the private data member priv_x and the access function x().
This leaves you with A.x() for reading the data.

In another article, Joe Buck gives an excellent summary of why in general
you don't want to provide direct access to data members.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com