From -2628588847808508161 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,f6130266038a8c4d X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!194.159.246.34.MISMATCH!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: weyns@online.no ("Conrad Weyns") Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Private Methodes declared outside of the class Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 05:32:11 GMT Lines: 51 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: <2oblfaF8nds3U1@uni-berlin.de> <_p6Uc.1281$g%5.16328@news2.e.nsc.no> <41211964$0$73936$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1092807135 6710 158.152.254.254 (18 Aug 2004 05:32:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 05:32:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Priority: 3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-mulga_r1 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.2 required=5.2 tests=BAYES_00,PRIORITY_NO_NAME autolearn=no version=2.60-mulga_r1 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i7I5WBs6008229; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:32:11 +1000 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:05:46 MEST X-Spam-Level: X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Spamscanner: mailbox5.ucsd.edu (v1.4 May 20 2004 13:55:33, 0.8/5.0 2.63) X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 67905 i7H55mZE079817 mailbox5.ucsd.edu) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:1778 ""Thorsten Ottosen"" wrote in message news:41211964$0$73936$14726298@news.sunsite.dk... > ""Conrad Weyns"" wrote in message news:_p6Uc.1281$g%5.16328@news2.e.nsc.no... > | > | "Ben Strasser" wrote in message > | news:2oblfaF8nds3U1@uni-berlin.de... > | > Hello, > | > > | > I was wondering why you can not declare private methods outside of the > | > class declaration? > > because it's not needed. > > | As Bob said, the Pimpl idiom will help you out. > | But you can often get away with mere static functions. > | All you need is to declare friendship: > > Actually friendship is not even needed. just add functions with appropriate arguments > in the implementation file. I just tried this and I stand corrected. I am surprised. I allways thought that declaring a Impl class this way was identical to a nested class. Evidently, it isn't and I must admit I don't understand why. A nested class would need friendship. Thanks for putting me right! Regards, Conrad Weyns > > br > > Thorsten > > > --- > [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] > [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] > [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] > [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ] > --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]