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Friend Declarations

Explore the concept of friend declarations in C++ classes to understand how they allow selected functions or classes to access private and protected members. Learn the rules governing friendship such as non-inheritance and non-transitivity, and how this feature supports controlled access inside class design.

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The friend declaration appears in a class body and grants a function or another class access to private and protected members of the class where the friend declaration appears. ...