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From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Critique of Wiener/Pinson
Message-ID: <247@ateng.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 88 15:14:16 GMT
References: <8063@apple.Apple.Com> <6590037@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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In article <6590037@hplsla.HP.COM> jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock) writes:
>I don't buy the idea that instance variables of an object must always
>be accessed via an access method.  I think there are good cases for
>violating this "rule".

Sometimes.  Maybe.  But when it's debugging time, It's _so_ easy to insert:

	cerr << "I'm being changed!\n";

into the modification function.

>[If in doubt, use access functions]

Amen.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg                "chip@ateng.UU.NET" or "codas!ateng!chip"
A T Engineering                My employer may or may not agree with me.
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