Class Member Accessibility

• When an outside program calls another class's methods, we say that it is a client of the class.
• The previous program code:

    Item item = new ItemInfo;
    cout << "The item's price is " << item->getPrice() << endl;
    cout << "The item's color is " << item->getColor() << endl;

  is a client of the ItemInfo class.
• Q: Why can't the client accomplish the same thing with:

    Item item = new ItemInfo;
    cout << "The item's price is " << item->price << endl;
    cout << "The item's color is " << item->color << endl;

  A: