From 5680126314246762187 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,f6130266038a8c4d X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!194.159.246.34.MISMATCH!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: SeeWebsiteForEmail@moderncppdesign.com ("Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website for Email)") Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Private Methodes declared outside of the class Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 05:16:23 GMT Lines: 40 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <2opeorFcvfp8U1@uni-berlin.de> References: <2oblfaF8nds3U1@uni-berlin.de> <2oih41Fb5pb5U1@uni-berlin.de> <8b42afac.0408200500.48e13c94@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1093151787 22383 158.152.254.254 (22 Aug 2004 05:16:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 05:16:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Priority: 3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64-mulga_r1 (2004-01-11) on mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de tCcwaUvaKVeuS9UpfKD39AhJTyJZYno4G7K0bgvV+Q9Jr3I4A= X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,PRIORITY_NO_NAME autolearn=no version=2.64-mulga_r1 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i7M5GNt1014982; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:16:23 +1000 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Spam-Level: X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Spamscanner: mailbox2.ucsd.edu (v1.4 May 20 2004 13:55:33, 0.7/5.0 2.63) X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.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++ X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 73403 i7LHNe7f075128 mailbox2.ucsd.edu) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:2009 "James Kuyper" wrote in message news:8b42afac.0408200500.48e13c94@posting.google.com... > SeeWebsiteForEmail@moderncppdesign.com ("Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website > for Email)") wrote in message news:<2oih41Fb5pb5U1@uni-berlin.de>... >> "Steve Clamage" wrote in message >> news:cfvuts$sen$1@news1nwk.SFbay.Sun.COM... >> >>> Ben Strasser wrote: >>> >>>> I was wondering why you can not declare private methods outside of > the class declaration? >>> >>> >>> If you could declare member functions outside the class definition, > anyone could hijack the class (for good or bad purposes), or break the > class invariants without anyone knowing. >> >> Well, not if they don't have access to the class' private parts. (I >> understand this is derailing the discussion from OP's post.) > > Then they don't need to be member functions (or even friends). Very true. However, many a programmer prefers obj.Foo() to Foo(obj), to make it clear who the "main receiver" is. A good language would allow both syntaxes making them equivalent (that's what Cecil does). (derailing the discussion further...) Andrei --- [ 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.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]