Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> You still get subclasses. And of course there's always the hack of declaring 
> a subclass.

  A subclass can't access the private members of the base class.

> Or just using compiler-specific hackage to access the variables. 

  That has been made rather difficult in practice. If you are *intentionally*
trying to break your program, then that's your choice, of course. However,
in normal usage it's useful if the compiler checks that you don't make
mistakes.

> or the infamous "#define private public".

  Whether your program will link after that can depend on the compiler.
It's certainly not standard-conforming. And again, you are hacking on
purpose, trying to bypass the compiler checks, rather than using those
checks to catch your mistakes.

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