Re: g++ 4: Unrecognised Friendship

[red floyd]

JH Trauntvein wrote:
> red floyd wrote:
> [redacted
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> It seems to me that the key here is in the phrase, "first declares a
> class or function".  The sample code that I provided had a forward
> declaration of the class in the appropriate namespace that the
> friendship declaration should have used.

Yes, but the friend declaration was the first declaration of n1_base in 
the n1::n1_helpers namespace.  Thus 7.3.1.2/3 applies.