Cluster
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abstract system model An information cluster encapsulates complex, sensitive, global, or device dependent data, along with functions which manage the data, in a container with internals not accessible to client view. Public access is provided by a series of accessor and mutator functions. Clients don't have access to private functions or data. C module using file scope for encapsulation. All private functions and global data are qualified as C++ static. class using public, protected, and private keywords to implement public and protected interfaces. Each class (or small, intimately related group of classes) should be given its own module. Each module implementing an information cluster contains a manual page and maintenance page whi...