Merits and demerits of friend function

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Prabhu Kumar V a

  • Jun 14th, 2006
 

merits:

   we can able to access the other class members in our class if,we use friend keyword.

   we CAN access the members without inheriting the class.

demerits:

  Maximum size of the memory will occupied by objects according to the size of friend Members.

  we cant do any run time ploymorphism concepts in those members.

 

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yogesh anasane

  • Nov 21st, 2012
 

1) Sometimes a friend function allows a more obvious syntax for calling a function rather than what a member function can do.
2) Friend function is used to increase versatility of overload operator.

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rahul banerjee

  • May 27th, 2015
 

its the copy of the wbut organizer for BCA...but still it is usefull

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vadivel kumar

  • Sep 17th, 2015
 

It can access the member function of another class

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PRERNA

  • Nov 7th, 2015
 

- Provides additional functionality which is kept outside the class.
- Provides functions that need data which is not normally used by the class.
- Allows sharing private class information by a non member function.

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