Nested Classes: A useful tool or an encapsulation violation?

Posted by Bryan Harrington on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Bryan Harrington
Published on 2011-01-05T22:27:41Z Indexed on 2011/01/05 22:59 UTC
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So I'm still on the fence as to whether or not I should be using these or not.

I feel its an extreme violation of encapsulation, however I find that I am able to achieve some degree of encapsulation while gaining more flexibility in my code.

Previous Java/Swing projects I had used nested classes to some degree, However now I have moved into other projects in C# and I am avoid their use.

How do you feel about nested classes?

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