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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Phil Edwards wrote: > I used to do the exact opposite, in order to satisfy some compilers that > would puke when public functions operated on private data that were not > yet declared. If there's been one thing that's been consistent with my C++ code since '89 or so, it's the placement of public before private. It's worked reasonably well (with a few compiler bug workaround till a few years ago) since Cfront v1.x. Look back at code that you had written 10 years ago, and haven't looked at since, and you'll see how much of a difference it makes. Never trust comments written 10 years ago right before the big product deadline, trust only your source ;-) Regards, Mumit