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   From: daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com   
      
   On 2011-12-09 06:05, pjacobi wrote:   
   > It seems GCC and MSVC agree on this:   
   >   
   > When f is is a private member of class Foo, then class class Bar   
   > cannot declare Foo::f to be a function friend.   
   >   
   > Isn't this a bit strange? That function declaration would not give Bar   
   > access to Foo internals, just the other way around, as any friend   
   > declaration does.   
      
   I agree that the current rules are unfortunate in this regard.   
      
   > So, is it really forbidden by the standard?   
      
   It seems so. As of 11.3 p9:   
      
   "A name nominated by a friend declaration shall be accessible in the   
   scope of the class containing the friend declaration."   
      
   HTH & Greetings from Bremen,   
      
   Daniel Krügler   
      
      
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