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From: kens@tekred.TEK.COM (Ken Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Friends, static members
Keywords: Considered Harmful?
Message-ID: <2668@tekred.TEK.COM>
Date: 20 Jun 88 14:20:13 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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I have just started using c++, I'd like to here what people
think of "Friends considered harmful", and also "Static members
considered harmful"(not const static members).  I have heard of
some people trying to go through an entire project without using
any friend constructs because of the potential "spagetti code"
syndrome. Is friend generally used as a hack to get around some
problems with C++?  How about static members, is this really a
limited scope global object?
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	Ken Spencer,Tekronix Inc.
	CNA Engineering
	Redmond, OR					
	kens@speed.CNA.TEK.COM