[Tutor] Public, private and protected member variables.

[Alan Gauld]

> Once I start grabbing attributes, I can go overboard.  
> A simple example: build a formatted string for a 
> customer record by writing code that grabs cust.firstname 
> and cust.lastname and so on.  The better approach is 
> to have a customer method that returns the formatted string.  

A good example, Lloyd, of getting the object to do it to itself 
so that there is no need for the get/set methods or direct 
access to the fields.

> Then the logic is written once and placed where you would 
> expect to find it.

Exactly so - inside the class with the data it manipulates.

Thanks for posting,

Alan G.