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[John Roth]

"Dave Reed" <dreed at capital.edu> wrote in message
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> > Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 12:32:50 -0400
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> > Rhymes wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there any possibility to build up a _real_ private attribute?
> >
> > Please define what "_real_" means to you.  It's not apparent.
> >
> > > Such as C++ private data members...
> >
> > You realize that it's quite possible to get at private data members
> > in C++, don't you?
>
> Kind of off-topic, but this got me curious. The only way I could think
> of is to assume (which I think is always true) that the private data
> members are in order from the starting address so based on the offset
> from the address of the object you could access each one.
>
> Is there another way?

I believe he's talking about the preprocessor macro trick
of redefining the word 'private' as 'public.'

John Roth
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