[boost] Re: token_iterator_test / como-win32-4.3.3-vc7.1 failure

1 Oct 2004


      Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
...
You basically saying that following is incorrect:
namespace out {
class A {};
namespace in {
class B {
friend class A;
};
} // namespace in
} // namespace out
Well it's incorrect if the goal is to make out::A a friend of out::in::B.
...
I bit strange.
Well, yes.
...
After all at the point of friend statement there is symbol A
that fit the bill. Why exactly standard doing that?
Sorry but I don't have the rationale.

Thomas

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