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I have a Transformation class that uses my Vector class (not to be confused with STL vector) as a private member variable.

My Vector class has a function which takes a Transformation object.

How do I do this? I can't define either one of them first, because they both need the other one defined to be defined themselves. The only thing that's even come close to working is to have each of their CPP files include the other one's header file before including it's own header file, but that causes infinite recursion.

Usually this would be done with some sort of inheiritence

I'm not a C++ guy but I think the structure is something like
class Vector : public Transformation {

}

But I'm not sure.



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No, they don't inherit from each other, they just happen to use each other.

I figured it out. It's too complicated to explain, but basically my explanation of the problem was oversimplified, so don't worry about it. =)

no, damnit!!

I worry!

how're you gonna explai it on the test if you can't explain it to me?

type that shit out, young man..


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I would have liked to hear the details but I'm sure you're busy getting whatever it is to work. Maybe some other time.

Well, essentially, you just #include the vector class from the transformation class. I didn't *think* that was working because there was another similar error related to trying to access private member variables.

To be honest, beyond that, I don't really know what the real answer is, but it's working, so I'm going to let it be =)

(note: this may have been impossible if the vector class had a transformation object as a private member variable, but it didn't; it merely took one as the argument to a function.)

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