[Dev-C++] A member access question

[Siva C. <siv...@ya...>]

Hello all,

I have this problem with member access of a C++ class.
Let A and B be two classes. I want A to have access to
only few specific private members of B. I have been
implementing it using an inner class of class B as
below.

class A
{
...
};

class B
{
public:

    class Bin
    {
      friend class A;
      private:
        int get_private_int_a_of_B(const B &b)
        {
            return b.a;
        }
    }

private:
    int a;
    ... other private members;
};

The class Bin need not have to be an inner class - it
can be an external friend of class B. However, making
it an inner class makes the code neater, and makes B a
bit more encapsulated I feel. So, my question is: Is
there a better/neater way of providing access to
specific private members of a class to another
particular class?

Thanks in advance,
Siva Chandra

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