Re: C++ Envy

[yang@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Huayong YANG)]

SBS Engineering (progers@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote:
> Tired of hearing about all those things that C++ can do that Ada87 can't?
> Then here's a cute trick in C++ that you'll like:

> #define private public
> #include compromised_class.h
> #define private private

> Confused?  The above says that when compiling the class header for
> compromised_class, all the private stuff will be public, and thus
> available to the world.  A friend showed me the above, and quoted the
> source as saying that eternal damnation was insufficient punishment...
> Hard to argue with.

Tell me how the above trick compromises the following class:

class T
{
  int an_item;
public:
  int another;
};

The data member an_item stays private, it seems to me.

--
Huayong