Questions tagged [friends]

The tag has no usage guidance.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
1 vote
1 answer
1k views

Inner and outer class relationship: should outer class be friend of inner's?

Is this design bad? Does it break encapsulation? The structure class B is a component of class A. Therefore, class A needs access to class B's members. Let a house be class A. Let a housekeeper be a ...
Jossie Calderon's user avatar
7 votes
5 answers
14k views

Should I use friend classes in C++ to allow access to hidden members?

Here is my situation (a simple example). Say I have a class called HiddenData Then I have another class called StoreHiddenData And finaly a class called OperateHiddenData Here's the thing, my ...
contrapsych's user avatar
26 votes
8 answers
19k views

C++ to friend or not to friend

I have an object oriented programming with c++ course this semester at college and we were learning about friend functions. I instinctively dislike them for their ability to bypass the security that ...
nikhil's user avatar
  • 661
5 votes
6 answers
8k views

C# Unit Testing In A Single Project

Alright, so I'm doing my first "real" C# project. I'm chugging along, enjoying myself, nice little language I've got here, fairly easy to use, la ti da. Then I get to the point that I realize there'...
trycatch's user avatar
  • 1,080