"private" methods in C

[alkatran]

I was just thinking: our professor has told us that there are no private methods in C (which is true), but can't I 'simulate' a private method by putting its declaration in the .c file instead of the .h file?

I mean, this would result in people only being able to access certain methods (unless they imported the .c file as well) but not ones they should keep their hands off.

Right?

[just_a_me]

I always thought there were private methods in C++, but maybe I'm wrong.

[just_a_me]

Oh, you said C. Sorry. You're probably right about not including it in the header file. That would probably do the trick.

[sunburnt]

Marking a function "static" will make it visible only to the file it's declared in; so if you mark a function in your .c file static, only functions that .c file should be able to reference it.

[alkatran]

Marking a function "static" will make it visible only to the file it's declared in; so if you mark a function in your .c file static, only functions that .c file should be able to reference it.

Isn't strtok static?

[sunburnt]

Isn't strtok static?

I don't think so, since you must include a .h file (string.h) to use strtok.

Now, it might use static variables inside of it, but a static variable declaration (inside a function) is different from a static function definition and a global static variable.