Accessing one file's globals from another file

[Adron]

On the other hand camel, a lot of your arguments don't really have anything to do with the necessity of using classes. Well-constructed procedural code can accomplish the same thing if you really want it to.

And that's what I (and some others) have been saying all the time. And regardless what Camel is saying, this *does* have to do with security. Not security from people with an intent to damage, but security from mistakes. joe shmoe may ZeroMemory your class or something, and that might cause a lot of trouble. Instead, declare a static variable for your data that needs protection, and there will be no way for him to mess up and zero it out.

[Camel]

And that's what I (and some others) have been saying all the time. And regardless what Camel is saying, this *does* have to do with security. Not security from people with an intent to damage, but security from mistakes. joe shmoe may ZeroMemory your class or something, and that might cause a lot of trouble. Instead, declare a static variable for your data that needs protection, and there will be no way for him to mess up and zero it out.

i think that's a little far fetched. of course classes aren't going to protect your variables, that wasnt the point. it's just for headache saving.
perhaps we can compromise:

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#if Debug
class privatestuff
{
public:
   bool touchiagosPrivates(...);
private:
   struct privates the_privates;
} iagos_privates;
#else
static struct privates iagos_privates;
#end if
fair?

[edit] renamed iagos_privates::iagos_privates