Re: private member access

"Peter Carlson" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OqP8rHUIGHA.3100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I know this is a very simple c++ question, but I thought that private
> data members were only accessible inside the class. So why is A.x
> accessible to the function IsA?
>
> class A {
> public:
> bool IsA(A &a) {
> return (a.x == x) ? true : false;
> }
> private:
> int x;
> };
>
>
> Peter

Because access rights are class-wide, not object-wide. Thus if you have

A a1, a2;

then a1 has access rights to a2 and vice versa.


--
John Carson


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