Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!mit-eddie!bu-cs!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsm!raila From: raila@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Friends, static members Message-ID: <4800028@uiucdcsm> Date: 21 Jun 88 21:47:00 GMT References: <2668@tekred.TEK.COM> Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:tekred.TEK.COM:2668:uiucdcsm:4800028:000:426 Nf-From: uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu!raila Jun 21 16:47:00 1988 I have used C++ for a couple small projects ( < 1K LOC). The only times that I remember having used friends was to compensate for a poor design job. It was much easier than restructuring classes, but the "spaghetti code syndrome" was noticeable. David K. Raila University of Illinois Dept. of Computer Science 1304 W. Springfield Urbana, Il. 61801 UUCP: { ihnp4, pur-ee, convex }!uiucdcs!raila ARPA: raila@a.cs.uiuc.edu