Encapsulation and friends

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From: Anders Eklund
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 20:18

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Friends break the rules of encapsulation and should be avoided
as much as possible, but sometimes they must be used anyway.
When I have used friends they only had to use one or a
few members of the class. As it is now all members are
accessible to the friend. I would like to specify which members
the friend can access. There is no way to do that today, but
would it not be nice to be able to do so? Any comments?

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From: anders@ida.his.se (Anders Eklund)
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Subject: Encapsulation and friends
Date: 14 Dec 1995 20:18:55 GMT
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