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Member class access to private members of enclosing class
- From: "Dylan Cuthbert" <dylan at q-games dot com>
- To: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 12:19:40 +0900
- Subject: Member class access to private members of enclosing class
Hi there,
I'd like someone to please clarify the following:
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/gnats-prs/2001-July/000339.html
I've found numerous references to this but I haven't found something that
definitively gives a conclusion. Right now g++ acts the way I'd expect it
but Stroustroup's book directly contradicts it:
The way I look at it, is that a class defined within another class is a
*member* of that class, and as in the case for function members gains access
to all the private/protected members of the surrounding class.
ie.
class Frog
{
int x, y;
class Blob
{
void Func( Frog& _Frog )
{
_Frog.x = 10;
_Frog.y = 20;
}
};
...
};
G++ (3.1 beta) compiles this with no problems, and I think it should work,
but I find conflicting information on the web and in "The C++ Programming
Language 3rd edition".
Regards
Dylan Cuthbert
http://www.q-games.com/