Class inheritance obsecure

Question

I was going through a old code written by someone i encountered one class defined as

class SomenameofClass::Someanothername of the class
{

//some code goes here 
};

what does it mean ? does it signifies private inheritance ?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4571355/why-would-one-use-nested-classes-in-c — NPE, Oct 14 '14 at 06:38

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 14 '14 at 06:41

This is the definition of a nested class which was declared elsewhere like this:

class SomenameofClass
{
  class Someanothername;
};

Usually this is done when the nested class is only used in the implementation of the outer class, so its definition doesn't need to be exposed in a header file.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 14 '14 at 06:51

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Nested classes are considered to be within the scope of the enclosing class and are available for use within that scope. To refer to a nested class from a scope other than its immediate enclosing scope, you must use a fully qualified name.

answered Oct 14 '14 at 06:51

Laura Maftei

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 14 '14 at 06:54

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Its nested class, these are used to avoid name conflicts among different scopes. If a class is used by only one class, nest it, it will avoid naming conflicts and you will be notified if there is any conflict by intellisense

answered Oct 14 '14 at 06:54

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Class inheritance obsecure

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