Thom Boyer thom-at-boyers.org |Perl 6| wrote:
I believe Mr. Stroustrup's deprecation of 'protected' access applies
only to data data members, not function members:
Fortunately, you don't have to use protected data in C++; 'private'
is the default in classes and is usually the better choice.
Larry Wall wrote:
How private is private? I wonder if what you've called private
things are really more like "protected" in C++ (accessible by the
derived class) and that 'my' attributes are really private, as are
submethods. It's all confused. Who is allowed to access what?
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