Unusual scope question

[earthwormgaz]

The Metrowerks compiler does not think that a local struct declared
within a method of a class should be able to see private data of that
class. Is this a feature of the standard or a quirk of this compiler
does anyone know?

Example ...

class A
{
private:
enum MyEnum
{
A,
B
};

void MyMethod()
{
struct
{
MyEnum val
} values[] =
{ { A }, { B } };
}
};

 

[Victor Bazarov]

The Metrowerks compiler does not think that a local struct declared
within a method of a class should be able to see private data of that
class. Is this a feature of the standard or a quirk of this compiler
does anyone know?

Example ...

class A
{
private:
enum MyEnum
{
A,
B
};

void MyMethod()
{
struct
{
MyEnum val
} values[] =
{ { A }, { B } };
}
};

A local struct is not a member of the class, hence it doesn't have
access to private elements of the class.

V

 

[Mumia W.]

The Metrowerks compiler does not think that a local struct declared
within a method of a class should be able to see private data of that
class. Is this a feature of the standard or a quirk of this compiler
does anyone know?

Example ...

class A
{
private:
enum MyEnum
{
A,
B
};

void MyMethod()
{
struct
{
MyEnum val
} values[] =
{ { A }, { B } };
}
};

GCC 3.3.5 says this for the line that reads "class A":

error: duplicate field `class A' (as enum and non-enum)

IOW, you have a name collision between A the class and A the enum value.

 

[Salt_Peter]

The Metrowerks compiler does not think that a local struct declared
within a method of a class should be able to see private data of that
class. Is this a feature of the standard or a quirk of this compiler
does anyone know?

Example ...

class A

class TypeA

{
private:
enum MyEnum
{
A,
B
};

void MyMethod()
{
struct
{
MyEnum val

MyEnum val; // semicolon

} values[] =
{ { A }, { B } };
}

};