Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Oh! OK. Heh. I don't think I've ever had the pleasure of needing or using 
> inner classes before, in any language, so it didn't leap out at me.

  Why not? It aids in limiting the visibility of types, and thus increases
modularity. If a class uses a helper class which is completely exclusive
to that class (and might even be a friend), then it makes sense that the
helper class is defined as a private inner class.

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                                                          - Warp

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