class person
{
protected:
int age;
int wieght;
};
template <class Base>
class people: public Base
{
private:
Base *prev;
Base *next;
};
people<person> plist;
That's what I thought at first, but friend is for when you want class A to be able to view private things of class B. That is, B needs to know ahead of time what A is interested in. He wants B to remain ignorant of what A wants - he wants A to be able to insert new fields into B. But we can accomplish the same thing with mixins.