Re: Encapsulation in Ada vs. C++ (Was Re: Ichibah [sic] ...)

[dag@control.lth.se (Dag Bruck)]

In <comp.lang.ada> magnus@lglsun.epfl.ch (Magnus Kempe) writes:
>
>To achieve this, operators would have to be "friends" in C++,
>because of its equation "module = class"; however, the problem
>with such an approach is that _anyone_ can then claim to be a
>"friend", and therefore _anyone_ can break the abstraction of
>the class.

This is incorrect.

A class grants friendship to other functions or classes, which means
that the author of a class controls who gets access to the private
members of the class.  You cannot grant yourself access to any random
class.

			-- Dag Bruck