I've been reading this article , and was playing around with the memberspace idiom for a while when I noticed something that surprised me within this snippet (which compiles without problems: http://ideone.com/hRiV5B ):
class HugeClass
{
public:
struct memberspace
{
int f() const { return parent.f; }
private:
friend HugeClass;
explicit memberspace(HugeClass & parent)
: parent(parent) {}
HugeClass & parent;
} memberspace;
HugeClass() : memberspace(*this), f(42) {}
private:
int f;
};
I would have expected a compiler error that the access of HugeClass::f
is not allowed because f
is private in that context.
HugeClass
is a friend
of memberspace
, so HugeClass
may call the private constructor of memberspace
, but why does it work the other way around without explicitly declaring memberspace
a friend
of HugeClass
?
By language rules in C++11.
A nested class is a member and as such has the same access rights as any other member. Example:
class E { int x; class B { }; class I { B b; // OK: E::I can access E::B void f(E* p, int i) { p->x = i; // OK: E::I can access E::x } }; };
And in C++03 was
The members of a nested class have no special access to members of an enclosing class, nor to classes or functions that have granted friendship to an enclosing class; the usual access rules (clause 11) shall be obeyed.
So, example from C++11 should not work with c++03 compilers.
memberspace
是HugeClass
一部分,与其他类成员具有相同的访问权限。
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