From 6414382781754680885 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,8b682de414fbeb0e X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Barry Margolin Subject: Re: Cpp Inheritance = Incest? Date: 1999/01/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 432479949 Approved: Fergus Henderson References: <77h73o$asm@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> X-Original-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:36:39 GMT X-Complaints-To: news@news.unimelb.edu.au X-Trace: izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au 916306766 1766 128.250.29.16 (14 Jan 1999 09:39:26 GMT) Organization: GTE Internetworking, Cambridge, MA X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUANp27O+EDnX0m9pzZAQE6bgF+Mg6jhLlmDLmmx/yJegttpbFY88ODuz3R nYmG2xo1wuFS2RKVsYjQmbK5g+K5XPLe =FjKq NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jan 1999 09:39:26 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ In article <77h73o$asm@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>, Anthony Clay wrote: > While writing my own array class in standard ANSI C++ I came across an >intersting question. I understand that two different classes can declare to >be friends with each other, can I class declare itself a friend. Classes are already friends with themselves. > In my class each node in the array has pointers that point to the next >and previous elements in the array. However, when constructing and >'stringing' the seperate nodes together, I want to this object to have >access to the private members of another member of the same class or >whatever. C++ access control is based on classes, not objects. A member function of a class can access the private data of that class in any object of that class, not just the "this" object. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@bbnplanet.com GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Don't bother cc'ing followups to me. --- [ 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://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]