Apologises if this subject has been covered here before. I have a
question regarding the accessability of private type declarations. For
the following code segment Sun C++ 4.0.1 produces the error:

"Foo.cc", line 9: Error (Anachronism): Foo::Bar is not accessible from file level.

class Foo
{
private:
 enum Bar {a,b,c};
 Bar baz();
};


Foo::Bar
Foo::baz()
{
 return a;
}
"Foo.cc", line 9: Error (Anachronism): Foo::Bar is not accessible from file level.

As I only want to use th enum in a private context I would have
thought this was allowable. Could somebody please explain why the
standard has introduced this feature or is it something that has been
changed since Sun implemented their compiler ?

Thanks in advance




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Mark A. Stubley                                     (mas@ftel.co.uk)
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