I mean, I don't know if you can do this with modern c++, but I would occasionally do this when I was being aggressive in my c++ tweaks: #define private pub

I mean, I don't know if you can do this with modern c++, but I would occasionally do this when I was being aggressive in my c++ tweaks: #define private public #import <something.h> then you can interact with your class private fields all you want.