Private visible?

Dave Dave_member at pathlink.com
Thu Jul 13 09:08:16 PDT 2006


Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Lucas Goss wrote:
> 
>> Was there ever any resolve as to private being visible? I know Walter
>> said he saw the value of private by default, but what about private
>> being visible? It just seems to have dropped off the radar and I don't
>> know if thats good or bad.
>>
>> Lucas
> 
> Did you mean accessible? Anyway, see Bruno's post, although I'm quite sure
> it won't be forgotten by some of us ;)
> 

Here's my take - feel free to correct:

- accessible: can be used to access the symbol. Must be visible as well 
for the lookup (I realize this is obvious).
- visible: the compiler considers the symbol during lookup even though 
it may not accessible (not so obvious).



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