"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

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Say you have a class with a struct inside, like so:

class A
{
    struct B
    {
        int fork() { return 5; }
    }
}

You can then access B's members using:=20

A a=3Dnew A;
writefln(a.B.fork());

This is fine.

However, if I want to have an array of nested structs..

class A
{
    struct B
    {
        int fork() { return 5; }
    }
    B[5] b;
}

You can easily access this array as you would expect:

A a=3Dnew A;
writefln(a.b[0].fork());

But you can still access the class definition:

writefln(a.B.fork());

Normally in C++, I'd use the struct{...} b[5]; syntax, but that isn't =
available in D.

I've also tried to make the struct private (and yes, the class is in a =
separate module), and I can still access it.

Is there any way to have an array of nested structs without being able =
to access the definition?  Putting the struct outside the class is not =
possible, as the struct depends upon access to the class's methods.

"Simon Buchan" <buchan.home ihug.co.nz> writes:

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:17:07 -0500, Jarrett Billingsley <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com>  
wrote:

<snip>
 Normally in C++, I'd use the struct{...} b[5]; syntax, but that isn't  
 available in D.

<snip>

Can't say how many times I've wanted that syntax, but throwing out the ;  
after
structs has throwen the baby out too, as it were.

Unfortunatley I can't help with the rest of that, unless

struct {...}[5] b;

works for you (You loose the namespace scope, though)

(If you really can still access it, post it in digitalmars.D.bugs)

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