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Private method access
Posted by Jamshed on May 17, 2000 at 7:04 AM
In the following code, a private member function (getNumInstances) is being called by the class's
client. I thought private member functions are
only accessible to class's member functions and
not the external world. Please explain.
public class CountInstances {
private static int numInstances = 0 ;
private int getNumInstances() {
return numInstances;
}
private static void addInstance() {
numInstances++;
}
CountInstances() {
CountInstances.addInstance();
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
CountInstances ref = new CountInstances();
System.out.println("Starting with " + ref.getNumInstances() + " Instances");
}
}
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