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From: kaiser@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Help needed with constructor syntax error
Message-ID: <8.26F4ED28@ananke.stgt.sub.org>
Date: 16 Sep 90 07:43:41 GMT
Organization: Ananke, Stuttgart, FRG
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In a message of <Sep 10 07:21>, Shein-Fong Law (sml@beach.cis.ufl.edu ) writes:  
 
SL>    I have compiler error when I tried to compile the following :

 SL>     class B;
 SL>     class A : public Base
[.....]
 SL>     class Base

Wrong declaration order. A base class must be defined before it can be used as a 
base class. A class can be used in a pointer or reference declararation before 
it's definition, but not as variable, class member or base class.

                Gruss, Andreas

 
 
 

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