What is the main reason of using a friend class?

Answer 1

so that we can access private properties of a class

Answer 2

as its name suggests friend function provides us a gateway to access the private members of a class

Answer 3

friend is a special mechanism for letting non member functions access private data. A Friend function can be either declared or defined within the scope of a class definition.

Answer 4

OK. thanks all

Answer 5

We normally use friend functions when we have to link data between two different classes ( in few cases inheritance isn't required as all the properties of one class aren't need by the other)

Answer 6

OK. thanks all

Answer 7

yes.. pramod