access keyword

Tim Peters tim.one at home.com
Wed Jul 18 21:39:37 EDT 2001


[Javier Bezos]
> Just curiosity. What was the access keyword indended for?

It was never documented so you'd have to dig into the CVS history and
reverse-engineer it from the code.  In general, it was for controlling name
visibility, akin to protected, private, private protected, protected static
private, and const private public protected volatile const private.

plus-5**9-more-i-lost-track-of-ly y'rs  - tim





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