Re: [boost] shared_ptr implementation without template friends

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-07-31 09:40:14

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From: <nwstewart_at_[hidden]>
>
> This is true, but I have caught people simply using source auto-completion
to
> find member names, without looking at the source.

This sounds to me like the way the MSVC feature works. Doesn't the
auto-completion find private members, too? I can't seem to get that feature
to work for me in VC right now, so I can't test it, but I wouldn't want to
be compelled to mangle all of my private names so that people wouldn't use
them.

Give those people a slap on the wrist. Even if they randomly find a member
name, how will they know what it means without reading the source? If they
look at the source it will be revealed as a member that "should be private".

-Dave