On Saturday, 19 November 2022 at 23:05:30 UTC, thebluepandabear
wrote:
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btw. Although this thread has well and truly exhausted it
usefulness, the question you posed primarly relates to
encapsulation, and as such, I think Scott Myers provided a
reasonable answer to your question - more than 2 decades ago:
"Encapsulation is a means, not an end. There's nothing inherently
desirable about encapsulation. Encapsulation is useful only
because it yields other things in our software that we care
about. In particular, it yields flexibility and robustness."
https://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/how-non-member-functions-improve-encapsuhttps://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/how-non-member-functions-improve-encapsu/184401197
