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On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 at 08:24, Emile Cormier via Std-Proposals <
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> Hi Joshua,
>
> Search for "C++ passkey idiom". It may be just what you're looking for.
>
> Cheers,
> Emile Cormier
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 2:34 AM Joshua Brown via Std-Proposals <
> std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a lot of trouble finding anything on stack overflow or elsewhere
>> on this topic. I have been attempting to better encapsulate some of my
>> classes and the scopes in which they can be used. I am trying to find out
>> if there exists a way to limit access of certain methods of a class to
>> another class without using private access modifier with the friend
>> keyword. Adding a class as a friend is overkill and does not really help
>> with improving the encapsulation.
>>
>> One of the use cases I am running into is allowing a constructor to only
>> be called by a few specific classes. Imposing this limitation is beneficial
>> when the classes are large and I do not want to allow arbitrary creation of
>> them.
>>
>> If there is not an easy way to do this, I'm trying to find out if it
>> would be worth starting down the road of making a proposal.
>>
>> Joshua Brown
>>
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