Re: Make Array Unmodifiable?

From: kk_oop (_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 21:22:58 -0400

Liz wrote:

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>What sort of users do you have that are going to screw around
>with your hidden data? Didn't you make it clear that they can't do this?
>And if they do, they have no recourse to blame you for their misuse.
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I think the assumption is that users would unknowingly screw around with
hidden data at some point if they were allowed to. That's the whole
reason to have protected and private scope. It just seems that
returning a reference to these private or protected objects defeats the
purpose of making them private or protected to begin with.

- Ken