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Erlkönig: c++-friends.shtml>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" |