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From: glascock@esd.dl.nec.com (Trent Glascock)
Subject: Re: Student needing help with C++ function overloading???
Date: 1995/04/25
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In article <3nb582$l1v@warp.cris.com>, mshafiq@aol.comORshafiq@cris.com says...
>This gives me an error :  
>member 'number::val' of class 'number' is not accessible. 
>Obviously because 'val' can only be accessed by member functions of class   
>number! So my dilemma is, how can I get an overloaded sqrt() function to   
>take and return parameters of type number?

Make the overloaded function a *friend*.

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Trent Glascock
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