That’s what friends are for

That’s what friends are for

A class can declare external functions or other classes as friends. Friendship grants full access to all of the grantor’s members, even private and protected ones:

 void encrypt (string & rep) {/*..*/} //global functionclass spy { 		public:			static void transmit(const string& rep) { /*..*/}		//...	};class secret {		friend class spy;//spy can access all members of 'secret'		friend void encrypt(string & rep);//...and so can encrypt	private:		string report; 	public:		void scramble() { ::encrypt(report); }		void transmit() const { spy::transmit(report); }};

Notes about friendship:

  1. A friend declaration exposes implementations details of its class, so it should be used wisely. However, friendship has the advantage of allowing code re-use in a simple manner; in fact, many of the standard functions and overloaded operators are used in standard containers (like string<>) by means of friendship.
  2. Friendship is not inherited, so non-public members of any class derived from secret are not accessible to spy and encrypt.
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