From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Class Question
Date:	Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:45:12 -0800
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"Steven S. Falls" wrote:
> 
>    Is their a way to make a global function acsess the private members
> of a class directly? In other words can you make global functions
> friends of classes?

Sure, it's routinely done with iostream inserters and extractors, for
instance (since the first argument to them must be an iostream
reference:

    class Vector
    {
        ...

        friend ostream &operator <<(ostream &os, const Vector &v);
        friend istream &operator >>(istream &is, Vector &v);
    };

    ostream &operator <<(ostream &os, const Vector &v) { ... }

    istream &operator >>(istream &is, Vector &v); { ... }

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