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Wes Groleau wrote:
> I'm not interested in "arbitrary" attributes.
> I'm interesting in creating an abstraction that
> has the attributes of being some kind of "number"
> but is still user-defined.


Well, "arbitrary" includes your case.

> But if we have a legitimate reason
> to "hide" the implementation with "private" we
> give up the ability to query the attributes.

Not in C++.