Basic Privacy Question

[golfinguy4]

Say I have a class foo. In the class, there is a method whatever which takes an argument of type foo. Would the method be able to access the private members of the argument?

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Hey Guy,

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Now, the answer to your question: yes. Protection is on the class level. Objects of the same class can't protect themselves from each other.
[ November 18, 2004: Message edited by: Ernest Friedman-Hill ]