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Please don't. The whole idea of OO is encapsulation of behavior within an object. The TT should be an implementation detail which you are free to change latter without impacting any of the classes which use this class. You should provide methods which perform the needed operations on the temp-table and leave the TT entirely internal to the class. As Simon notes, the one possible exception, which is not actually an exception, is access by subclasses, but even there proceed with caution.

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