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class member that is that class

Nov 20th, 2008

Hello,

I'm programming in C++. Is it possible to have a private data member of type class X within the definition of class X? For example,

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class X
{
    ...
    private:
    X m_member;
    ...
}
class X
{
    ...
    private:
    X m_member;
    ...
}

I'm pretty sure it's not possible, but I appreciate any feedback.

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Re: class member that is that class

Nov 20th, 2008

>I'm pretty sure it's not possible
It's possible, but not like that. You can have a pointer or a reference to the class being defined:

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class X {
  X *m_member;
};
class X {
  X *m_member;
};

I'm here to prove you wrong.

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