Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsk!dwwx
From: dwwx@cbnewsk.att.com (david.w.wood)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: scope of friend identifiers
Summary: 2.1 changed enclose scope rules
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.040839.24010@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 21 Aug 90 04:08:39 GMT
References: <5708@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1990Aug17.123746.8855@tukki.jyu.fi>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I believe this is the case (Andrew Koenig will correct me if I'm wrong :-)

While it was true that nested class declarations were treated as being
declared with global scope, C++ 2.1 now supports nested scoping
so 
   class out {
	
	class in {
	}
   }

only out knows about in (helps keep the name space clean of supporting
classes) I have to wonder, though, how much code will break because
of this..... (Actually, I wish this had been supported since the
beginning, but better late than never...)

david wood