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Nicolas Risso
Nicolas Risso

Reputation: 13

Compiling error when using struct within an inner class

I could not find any answer that helped me understand why the following code does not compile. Im declaring a struct within the private part of a class (Foo), and trying to use it from within an inner class (Bar) like this.

class Foo {
public:
    Foo();
    class Bar;

    class Bar {
    public:
        Bar();
        Foo::Node createNode();
    };

private:
     struct Node{
        Node(int d) : data(d) {};
        int data;
     };
};

And the compiler throws the following error:

.../Foo.h:9:14: error: no type named 'Node' in 'Foo'

Upvotes: 1

Views: 30

Answers (1)

Sam Varshavchik
Sam Varshavchik

Reputation: 118340

You need to declare the inner class before referencing it:

class Foo {
    class Node;
public:

    // ...

Upvotes: 1

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