Accessor Functions

• Since all member variables will be private there is no access to them outside the class

• So how does one access these variables?

• Controlled access is granted trough a set of functions called accessor functions

• An accessor function is simply a public member function of the class which returns the value (or something equivalent to) of a member variable

• For example the get_day() and get_month() member function of the DayOfYear class

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