FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: NetDebug.h break BC

["Philippe Houdoin" <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx>]

Scott wrote:
> > But why making these 4 variables protected instead of private?
> > Does your BNetEndpoint implementation exploit these protected 
members
> > in some way?
> 
> No, BNetEndpoint doesn't.
> 
> I made these protected for convenience of implementation and 
inheritance -- 
> should someone decide to extend this class with their own 
implementation and 
> need access to the stack controllers.  Since, in the interest of 
binary 
> compatibility, I couldn't write accessors and mutators for these 
member 
> variables (which is, AFAIK, the generally accepted way to allow 
access to 
> member data; please correct me if I'm wrong here) without breaking 
the class' 
> signature, I made them protected.
> 
> If you want, I'll fix 'em.  After all, I'm the idiot that broke them 
in the 
> first place...

Not, it's fine. I was just wondering why "protected".

> Scott "still workin' on my morning coffee" Mansfield

LOL.

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