------- Comment #4 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-12-18 20:25 -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> C++ standard §11.4 (Friends) ¶7:
>
> "A name nominated by a friend declaration shall be accessible in the scope of
> the class containing the friend declaration. The meaning of the friend
> declaration is the same whether the friend declaration appears in the private,
> protected or public (9.2) portion of the class member-specification."
There is nothing about injecting the friend into the namespace there. All that
is saying is the friend needs be accessible in that you cannot make a private
method of another class a friend. In that, this is invalid code:
class a
{
void f(void);
public:
void g(void);
};
class b
{
friend void a::f(void);
};
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