No, accessor member functions are a sign of good class design, particularly in terms of data encapsulation.
Any member functions and data members declared as 'private' in a class, can only be accessed directly by functions within the class.They cannot be accessed directly by derived objects, nor from anywhere outside an object of the class, such as from the Main function.To access private class members, you must rely on what are called accessor functions. Accessor functions are functions inside the class, either public or protected, which automatically have access to private members.If a function from Main, or elsewhere outside the class hierarchy, needs access, then you need to use publicaccessor functions. For derived class access, you can use protected accessor functions.
Nothing stops a member function from changing any of the values in a class. By convention, an accessor function is used to give read only access to class data, but that does not mean that it is prohibited from doing so. It is a member function, after all, and it has all the rights of any member function of the class.
To scope class members to the class (rather than to instances of the class), declare them as static members of the class. Static members are accessible even when no instances of the class exist. As such, static member functions do not have access to a 'this' pointer, unlike ordinary (nonstatic) member functions.
A normal function is any function that is not a member of any class. Normal functions that operate upon a class are referred to as non-member functions, however a non-member function can also be a member of another class. Any class may declare any non-member function to be a friend of the class, in which case the function becomes a friend function.A member function is a member of a class and may be declared static or non-static. Non-static member functions have the following 3 properties:Private access to the class members.Scoped to the class.Must be invoked against an object of the class (has a 'this' pointer).Static member functions have the first two properties only while friend functions have the first property only. Non-member functions that are not friends of the class have none of these properties.
Derived classes only inherit the protected and public members of their base classes. Private member functions cannot be inherited by a derived class.
Any member functions and data members declared as 'private' in a class, can only be accessed directly by functions within the class.They cannot be accessed directly by derived objects, nor from anywhere outside an object of the class, such as from the Main function.To access private class members, you must rely on what are called accessor functions. Accessor functions are functions inside the class, either public or protected, which automatically have access to private members.If a function from Main, or elsewhere outside the class hierarchy, needs access, then you need to use publicaccessor functions. For derived class access, you can use protected accessor functions.
Nothing stops a member function from changing any of the values in a class. By convention, an accessor function is used to give read only access to class data, but that does not mean that it is prohibited from doing so. It is a member function, after all, and it has all the rights of any member function of the class.
With respect to a given class, all functions can be split into four categories: 1. Member functions. 2. Static member functions. 3. Friend functions. 4. Non-member functions. All class member functions have the following three properties with respect to the class in which they are declared a member: 1. Private access to the class representation. 2. Scoped to the class. 3. Invoked through an instance of the class (has a 'this' pointer). Static member functions have the first two properties only. Friend functions have the first property only. Non-member functions have none of these properties.
To scope class members to the class (rather than to instances of the class), declare them as static members of the class. Static members are accessible even when no instances of the class exist. As such, static member functions do not have access to a 'this' pointer, unlike ordinary (nonstatic) member functions.
A normal function is any function that is not a member of any class. Normal functions that operate upon a class are referred to as non-member functions, however a non-member function can also be a member of another class. Any class may declare any non-member function to be a friend of the class, in which case the function becomes a friend function.A member function is a member of a class and may be declared static or non-static. Non-static member functions have the following 3 properties:Private access to the class members.Scoped to the class.Must be invoked against an object of the class (has a 'this' pointer).Static member functions have the first two properties only while friend functions have the first property only. Non-member functions that are not friends of the class have none of these properties.
Derived classes only inherit the protected and public members of their base classes. Private member functions cannot be inherited by a derived class.
The derived class inherits all members and member functions of a base class.
No. A static member variable is local to the class in which it is declared (much like a global, but scoped to the class) and is accessible to all instances of the class. Since it does not belong to any one instance of the class, it cannot be accessed via the this pointer, as you can with non-static members. Implicitly accessing the variable is the same as explicitly accessing it via ::.Note that it is possible to access a static member variable from outside the class by providing an accessor (getter) for it within the class. The accessor should be static as well, but needn't be, but it should return by value, otherwise it is no better than a global.
If you are asking about member functions. When we declare a function inside a class then that function becomes member function of that class and this function can access the whole class
mutable keyword can only be applied to non-static and non-constant member of a class. It indicates that the corresponding data member can be modified even from the constant function. (Constant function: is a function marked with the keyword const) For eg. class x { private: mutable int query_count; int value; public: int get_value() const { query_count++; return value; } }; In the code above member query_count is marked with keyword mutable. Hence it's value can be modified from constant function get_value().
False. Public member data is accessible to all functions, whether they be public, protected or private members of the same class, or they are outside of the class completely.
A member function of a class can be defined outside the class using scope resolution :: operator Thanks Rajneesh