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[Paulo Pinto]

Am 19.01.2013 16:26, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
> On 2013-01-19 03:50, Andrey wrote:
>
>> I haven't seen such situations yet. According to OOP concept they must
>> be very rare, so I tend to consider them more of architecture and logic
>> mistake (and C++ is one big architecture and logic frankenstein).
>
> In theory and according to the OOP concept they might not be needed but
> when it comes to actually implement a OO concept it can turn out to be
> handy to have. That is, accessing a private member in the same module.
>

I do use it a lot when doing unit tests that check for side effects in 
the private data (JVM/.NET) of objects.