Re: Nested class doesn't obey member access rules

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"Igor Tandetnik" wrote:
Here's quotation from 11.8/1 "Nested classes":

<quote>
The members of a nested class have no special access to members
of
an enclosing class

See DR45, whereby this paragraph is replaced with

"A nested class is a member and as such has the same access
rights as any other member."

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html#45

Many compilers are tracking this DR. VC does since at least
VC7.1

Thanks for the prompt reply. It's good news. This fix makes much
more sense. Unfortunately, MSDN page is not updated even for most
recent compiler:

"Access Privileges and Nested Classes"
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee6hft63.aspx

Alex


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