From -1432023180080248026 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,51456c3eb8f9490e X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!newsfeed.vmunix.org!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: hofmann@anvil-soft.com ("Matthias Hofmann") Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Copy Constructor Confusion! Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:58:27 GMT Lines: 36 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <4kjo9uFcihf4U1@individual.net> References: <1155645873.296811.3890@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> <1155663179.843769.44420@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <4kh3o8Fc528lU1@individual.net> <1155753523.459377.147180@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1155837512 9986 158.152.254.254 (17 Aug 2006 17:58:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:58:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Priority: 3 X-Orig-X-Trace: individual.net ImCUWwIFkJHe19fTjLGhYwNjHSCfk42gP67c/ZFOPiEP8wTtbv X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Originating-IP: 130.133.1.2 X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id k7HHwRSw004392; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:58:27 +1000 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:3324 "mark" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:1155753523.459377.147180@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com... >> >> If it appears inside a member of a derived class, "protected" should >> >> suffice. >> > >> > Really? >> >> Yes, see section 11/1: "A member of a class can be [...] protected; that >> is, >> its name can be used only by members and friends of the class in which it >> is >> declared, and by members and friends of classes derived from this class." > > You left off the important part of the sentence (see 11.5), which says: > > . Except when forming a pointer to member (5.3.1), the access must be > through a pointer to, reference to, or object of the derived class > iteself (or any class derived from that class) (5.2.5). Yes, that's true. A protected member can be accessed only if those conditions you mentioned are also met. -- Matthias Hofmann Anvil-Soft, CEO http://www.anvil-soft.com - The Creators of Toilet Tycoon http://www.anvil-soft.de - Die Macher des Klomanagers --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]