Nested Class Question:
I have the following line of code
 Enclosing::a = new Nested[_value];
Enclosing is the enclosing class and Nested is a nested class within Enclosing.
However, in my constructor for the nested class, I need a private member value from the enclosing class.
Since I am constructing an array, I can't pass the argument.
Does anyone know how I can do this?
In particular,
I need to know how a nested class can access a private member of its enclosing class.
Thanks,
Jeriad Zoghby
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Jeriad Zoghby wrote in message <6e0e15$kq9$2@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>...
>I need to know how a nested class can access a private member of its
enclosing class.

The only way I know is to make the nested class a friend of the enclosing
class and then passing the nested class a pointer to the enclosing class
(See Section C.11.3 in THE C++ PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, Third Edition).   But
that won't help you in this case, because you can't pass a parameter to the
constructor.  You will have to construct the array elements without using
the member of the enclosing class.  Then you can call a seperate function to
initialize the elements.
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In article <6e0e15$kq9$2@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>, jmz@mail.utexas.edu
(Jeriad Zoghby) wrote:

> In particular,
> I need to know how a nested class can access a private member of its
enclosing class.

class Enclosing {
   class Nested {
   };
   friend class Nested;
};

-Howard
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