9.12. friend Functions and friend Classes

A friend function of a class is a non-member function that has the right to access the public and non-public class members. Standalone functions, entire classes or member functions of other classes may be declared to be friends of another class.

This section presents a mechanical example of how a friend function works. In Chapter 10 we’ll show friend functions that overload operators for use with class objects—as you’ll see, sometimes a member function cannot be used for certain overloaded operators.

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