On Monday, November 15, 2010 06:00:33 Manfred_Nowak wrote: > Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > Having public fields shadow each other is problematic. > > Detecting a problem requires having a model. > What does your model look like?
You're going to have to be more specific in your question than that. It's not at all clear what you're asking. Public and protected functions use polymorphism. Public and protected member variables do not. So, it becomes error prone to have public or protected member variables which shadow each other. It becomes easy to end up in a situation where you're not using the one that you think that you're using - especially when code gets changed. - Jonathan M Davis
