Problem in assigning an enum variable of another class

[woryzower]

I have a class which declares an enum in its header file and have a friend class like that :

class A
{
//constructors and other members
private:
    enum type {x, y };
    type enumtype;
    friend class B;
 
};

Then I want to assign the field enumtype in the Class B which stores some instance of A

A element;
element.etype=x; // this line gives compiler error x is not defined.

Why is that? I am including the A.h at the begining of class A

[Banfa]

You have 2 problems there, the enum is declared in A so using x does not use the right namespace for it. When you declare something inside a class to access it from outside of the class you need to include the class name to locate it, thus A::x.

However if you correct your code to do this you will still get an error because you have declared the enum private so it is not accessible externally to the class.