Re: Two nested classes are tied together.

From:
red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:27:27 -0700
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On 8/12/2011 12:16 PM, Nephi Immortal wrote:

On Aug 12, 2:07 am, Paavo Helde<myfirstn...@osa.pri.ee> wrote:

Nephi Immortal<immortalne...@gmail.com> wrote innews:04e11031-43ec-4fe3-a5e3-3f314332e350@p5g2000vbl.googlegroups.com:

class Object
{
private:
      class _Proxy;


Using such a name is UB, so definitely your code has undefined behavior
;-)

If you rename this class, your code seems to OK at the first glance. It
is a bit fragile as one must take care that an Object is not destroyed
before a corresponding Proxy. I would add some safeguards for such a
design, at least in Debug builds, e.g. each Proxy would increase a
counter in the Object while it's alive, and the Object's destructor
asserts that the counter has reached zero again.


?If you rename this class?

I truly do not understand your point. What are you trying to clarify
that you rename a class name? Please clarify. I don?t see any
undefined behavior.


Any identifier with a leading underscore followed by an upper-case
letter is reserved to the implementation in ANY scope. This means
that you may not use such identifiers (like _Proxy) for your own
purposes.

What Paavo was saying is that outside of this issue, your code
looks OK.

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