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Public versus private inheritance when some of the parent's methods need to be exposed?
Public inheritance means that all fields from the base class retain their declared visibility, while private means that they are forced to 'private' within the derived class's scope.
What should be ...
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How to maintain encapsulation with composition in C++?
I am designing a class Master that is composed from multiple other classes, A, Base, C and D. These four classes have absolutely no use outside of Master and are meant to split up its functionality ...
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Are trivial protected getters blatant overkill?
Something I really have not thought about before (AS3 syntax):
private var m_obj:Object;
protected function get obj():Object
{
return m_obj;
}
private var m_str:String;
protected function get ...
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JavaScript objects and Crockford's The Good Parts
I've been thinking quite a bit about how to do OOP in JS, especially when it comes to encapsulation and inheritance, recently.
According to Crockford, classical is harmful because of new(), and both ...
