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Private access method
Posted by chandra sekaran on May 19, 2000 at 6:25 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");
>
> }
> } >
private methods can be accessed only by the other methods of the
same class. The object "ref" is a instance of CountInstances class
so it has the access.
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- answer quinith May 02, 2001 at 4:46 PM
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