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- There are techniques for getting around the restrictions of data
- hiding. One of the important advantages of data hiding in languages
- like C++ is that it is easier to comply with the rules than it is
- to get around them. In procedural languages like C, it was often
- more convenient for programmers to take short cuts than to follow
- the rules for preserving data integrity.
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