Borg Pattern Class usable from other classes?

[Delaney, Timothy]

> From: Alex Martelli [mailto:aleax at aleax.it]
> This would be bad practice in languages bereft of "property 
> idioms" such as 
> C++ of Java, but it's fine where properties are indeed 
> idiomatic, such as 
> Delphi or Python: the class author can and should ensure that 
> accesses to 

Actually, just to be picky, you can have property idioms in C++ ...
something I wrote a number of years ago ...

http://users.bigpond.net.au/tdelaney/index.htm?/tdelaney/products/property.h
tm

(sorry I had to give the long URL, but something's playing silly buggers on
the site - I haven't maintained it in a while).

Tim Delaney