[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mattias Flodin) writes:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 10:57:17AM -0500, Eric Woodruff wrote:
>> It is ridiculous that I can't give access to an inaccessible class. You have
>> to have access to be able to give it? What is the justification for this?
>
> The reason for making things private is to say "this is an
> implementation detail and I don't want anyone else to depend on its
> existence." If A were later to remove its internal class, compilation of
> B would fail.
>
> The "correct" way of doing this I suppose is to make both classes friends
> of eachother. But best of all would be to not use friends at all.
This is OFF TOPIC for Boost. Please take your discussion to an
appropriate forum such as comp.std.c++.
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