Other Friendly Relationships
Other combinations of friends and classes besides the ones discussed so far in this chapter are possible. Let’s take a brief look at some of them now.
Suppose the advance of technology brings interactive remote controls. For example, an interactive remote control unit might let you enter a response to some question posed on a television program, and the television might activate a buzzer in your remote control if your response is wrong. Ignoring the possibility of television using such facilities to program the viewers, let’s just look at the C++ programming aspects. The new setup would benefit from mutual friendship, with some Remote methods being able to affect a Tv object, as before, and with some Tv methods being ...
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