Declaring a Nested Class
The TextQuery
class from § 12.3.2 (p. 487) defined a companion class named QueryResult
. The QueryResult
class is tightly coupled to our TextQuery
class. It would make little sense to use QueryResult
for any other purpose than to represent the results of a query
operation on a TextQuery
object. To reflect this tight coupling, we’ll make QueryResult
a member of TextQuery
.
class TextQuery {public: class QueryResult; // nested class to be defined later // other members as in § 12.3.2 (p. 487)};
We need to make only one change to our original TextQuery
class—we declare our intention to define QueryResult
as a nested class. Because QueryResult
is a type member (§ 7.4.1, p. 284), we must declare QueryResult
before we use ...
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