CS202 7- ‹#›
Nesting
•Nesting is quite different than declaring friends. Friends provide special privileges to members; whereas, nesting restricts the scope of a class' name
and can reduce the
global namespace pollution.
•A class' definition can be placed inside the public, protected, or private sections of another class. The purpose of this is to hide the nested class' name inside another class, restricting access to that
name.
•It does not give either the outer class or the nested class any special privileges to access protected or private members of either class.
•A nested class does not allow the outer class access to its hidden members....the name of the nested class is
hidden.