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  • 3 months

    It’s a class that’s allowed to access another class’s private members. Obviously Linus doesn’t have any, because he codes in C.

    • Private members aren’t actively blocked from external access; they’re passively marked “Access prohibited”.

      That means that rather than being unable to find the members of a class, C programmers simply can’t pick up on the signals telling them that they’re not wanted.

      (Fellow C programmers: I’m joking. :D)