Access Specifier

[cyrus]

In C++ can I declare a friend function as private. Or is it that I can declare the friend function only as public?

[Rahulbatra]

In the concept of Friend functions the Friend declarations generally neither refer to private nor to public functions. I think this would clarify your query.

[arun17]

sure friend functions can be referred as private. Even though they are referred as private they can be defined in outside of a class.

[Manyamanas]

its doesn't matter where you declare friend function just the thing is that you need to declare in each class where you want to use the private part of any class..