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From: swillden@fcom.cc.utah.edu (Shawn Willden)
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Subject: Re: friends and local classes
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Andreas Rossberg (ti953017@rzcipa01.rz.tu-bs.de) wrote:

: 	class A
: 	{
: 	private:
: 		class B;
: 		friend class B;
: 		class B { /* ... */ };
: 	};

: This is tedious and even used to be illegal.

: Why are the rules that way? Could anybody give me a hint? However, IMO, the
: language should at least allow the terse notion of

: 		friend class B { /* ... */ };

Well, 
		class B { /* ... */ };
		friend B;

or
		friend class B;
		class B { /* ... */ };

are legal, and closer.

Shawn.

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