I can't see why anyone wouldn't see the advantages to a properly implemented private/protected/public. In fact I had not thought of Protected myself until you said it, but it does fit too.
Firstly I would like to say to everyone, CODE COMPLETE this book was a fantastic read and has improved my own programming style a lot.
It's mostly all down to discipline, but when you are writing something like FLOW and want to avoid users causing bugs because they are accessing members that should be private, it becomes a problem. Bug report X,Y,Z, resolution: Stop accessing X,Y,Z incorrectly.
Firstly I would like to say to everyone, CODE COMPLETE this book was a fantastic read and has improved my own programming style a lot.
It's mostly all down to discipline, but when you are writing something like FLOW and want to avoid users causing bugs because they are accessing members that should be private, it becomes a problem. Bug report X,Y,Z, resolution: Stop accessing X,Y,Z incorrectly.