Created on 1998-10-24.00:00:00 last changed 196 months ago
[Moved to DR at 4/01 meeting.]
Proposed resolution (04/01):
The resolution for this issue is incorporated into the resolution for issue 45.
Paragraph 1 says: "The members of a nested class have no special access to members of an enclosing class..."
This prevents a member of a nested class from being defined outside of its class definition. i.e. Should the following be well-formed?
class D { class E { static E* m; }; }; D::E* D::E::m = 1; // ill-formedThis is because the nested class does not have access to the member E in D. 11.8 [class.access] paragraph 5 says that access to D::E is checked with member access to class E, but unfortunately that doesn't give access to D::E. 11.8 [class.access] paragraph 6 covers the access for D::E::m, but it doesn't affect the D::E access. Are there any implementations that are standard compliant that support this?
Here is another example:
class C { class B { C::B *t; //2 error, C::B is inaccessible }; };This causes trouble for member functions declared outside of the class member list. For example:
class C { class B { B& operator= (const B&); }; }; C::B& C::B::operator= (const B&) { } //3If the return type (i.e. C::B) is access checked in the scope of class B (as implied by 11.8 [class.access] paragraph 5) as a qualified name, then the return type is an error just like referring to C::B in the member list of class B above (i.e. //2) is ill-formed.
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Date | User | Action | Args |
2008-10-05 00:00:00 | admin | set | status: wp -> cd1 |
2003-04-25 00:00:00 | admin | set | status: dr -> wp |
2002-05-10 00:00:00 | admin | set | messages: + msg681 |
2001-05-20 00:00:00 | admin | set | status: ready -> dr |
2000-11-18 00:00:00 | admin | set | messages: + msg400 |
2000-11-18 00:00:00 | admin | set | status: open -> ready |
1998-10-24 00:00:00 | admin | create |