CompuServe Messages

Yea, you're right. I had been thinking about the line in the DRM that says, "If a function mentioned as a friend has not been declared its nam is entered in the same scope as the name of the class containing the friend declaration." which says nothing about only allowing non-member functions. After posting that, I starting thinking about declarations for member functions. That is, could you say Y::foo(); on a line somewhere? Unless I could find a rule prohibiting it, why not? As far as I can tell it would be useless though. I looked in the new ARM and found that the commentary does state that, "This implies that a friend daclaration may be the first mention of a class or function name. However, there is no way of declaring a member function earlier than its class. <example shown, similar to this case>. The only way of specifying mutual friendship between two classes is to declare all of the second class a friend ofthe [sic] first." –John