clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage) writes:

>Properly viewed, a friend function is part of the public interface of
>the class, and except for the syntax you use to call it is equivalent to
>a public static member function.

That's not quite true, since a function can be a friend of more than
one class, but it can't be a member of more than one class.

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