Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>>   (That doesn't mean you can't have a pointer pointing to a member of an
>>> object, in a portable way. However, that requires either for the member
>>> to be public or for the object to give you the pointer.)
> 
>> Actually, just thinking about it a bit more, if the class returns a pointer 
>> to a member variable, and you can look in the header and see that pointer is 
>> in an array, then you have a well-defined way of accessing the other private 
>> data in the same array.
> 
>   Only if you also know which array element it's pointing to. (If you know,
> then the class is, effectively, exposing the entire array.)

That's true.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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   "what color is your nose?"

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