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Member functions of nested classes may be defined as inline functions. Inline
hi(inline member functions) member functions can be defined as if they were
defined outside of the class definition. To define the member function
tt(Outer::caller) outside of the class tt(Outer), the function's
hi(fully qualified name: nested class members) fully qualified name (starting
from the outermost class scope (tt(Outer))) must be provided to the
compiler. Inline and in-class functions can be defined accordingly. They can
be defined and they can use any nested class. Even if the nested class's
definition appears later in the outer class's interface.
When (nested) member functions are defined inline, their definitions should be
put below their class interface. Static nested data members are also usually
defined outside of their classes.
hi(nested class: static members)
If the class tt(FirstWithin) would have a tt(static size_t) datamember
tt(epoch), it could be initialized as follows:
verb(
size_t Surround::FirstWithin::epoch = 1970;
)
Furthermore, multiple scope resolution operators are needed to refer to
public static members in code outside of the surrounding class:
verb(
void showEpoch()
{
cout << Surround::FirstWithin::epoch = 1970;
}
)
Within the class tt(Surround) only the tt(FirstWithin::)
scope must be used; within the class tt(FirstWithin) there is
no need to refer explicitly to the scope.
What about the members of the class tt(SecondWithin)? The classes
tt(FirstWithin) and tt(SecondWithin) are both nested within tt(Surround), and
can be considered members of the surrounding class. Since members of a class
may directly refer to each other, members of the class tt(SecondWithin) can
refer to (public) members of the class tt(FirstWithin). Consequently, members
of the class tt(SecondWithin) could refer to the tt(epoch) member of
tt(FirstWithin) as tt(FirstWithin::epoch).
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