Friends
Explore the concept of friends in C++ class templates to understand how they grant access to class members. This lesson covers general and special forms of friendship, rules governing them, and how friendship is granted to types and templates, enhancing your mastery of flexible and secure C++ template programming.
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Friends #
Friends of a class template have access to all members of the class template.
A class or a class template can have a friendship to class or class templates, function or function templates, and types.
Rules:
- The declaration of friends can be made at an arbitrary place in the class