Re: Is there 'private' in namespace?

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:27:48 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 27, 5:55 am, Peng Yu <PengYu...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jul 25, 5:21 am, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:

At any rate, the *only* evolution along these lines I've ever
seen is from private to public, not the other way around.


In the post by Joe, he mentioned 'module', which is what I
really meant (I didn't know the appropriate word should be
'module', before Joe told me).


Modules are something very different; they actually do
something. I'm not up to date with the actual proposal in C++,
but presumably, once you've delivered a compiled module
interface file, the client code cannot add to the module. In
other words, modules are closed, like classes (except that they
are closed later in the development process---a class is closed
as soon as you write the closing brace).

Not that that affects my comment: you never evolve from public
to private (which would break the interface), but from private
to public.

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