struct in class access
Jonathan M Davis
jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sat Dec 8 23:24:06 PST 2012
On Sunday, December 09, 2012 07:54:25 js.mdnq wrote:
> Why can't a struct inside a class access the members of that
> class without a this pointer? It would seem natural to me that a
> nested struct should probably be special in that it is really
> just a special container to reduce clutter in the class.
Without a this pointer, there are no class members to access, because they
have to be associated with a specific instance of the class unless they're
static. Non-static, nested structs have access to their enclosing scope, but
then you can't create them separate from the enclosing class. However, if you
declare a nested class to be static, it has no access to the class' members
and is not associated with a specific instance of the class. It's just that
it's declared inside the class instead of outside of it.
- Jonathan M Davis
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