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<div style="margin: 8px 0; padding: 0 12px; color: #74777D;"><p style="padding: 0; margin: 8px;">I don't remember any past discussion about this, but as I discovered in KIO commit <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/R241:3d2330968beb508ac61639d0a9e523a5cc32fc27" style="background-color: #e7e7e7;
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color: black;text-decoration: none;">3d2330968b</a>, nested Private classes have the problem that you can't forward-declare them elsewhere in order to make them friends of another class.</p>
<p style="padding: 0; margin: 8px;">What would be the arguments in favour of nested Private classes?<br />
All I see is the risk of forgetting Q_DECL_HIDDEN, incompatibility with Q_D/Q_Q macros and more generally, inconsistency with Qt, plus the friend problem above.</p></div></div>
<div style="margin: 8px 0; padding: 0 12px;"><p style="padding: 0; margin: 8px;">Someone should update the part about the nested Private classes <a href="https://community.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issues_With_C++#Using_a_d-Pointer" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://community.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issues_With_C++#Using_a_d-Pointer</a></p></div></div></div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R289 KNotifications</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D28295">https://phabricator.kde.org/D28295</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>broulik, Frameworks, nicolasfella, dfaure<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>ahmadsamir, kossebau, kde-frameworks-devel, LeGast00n, cblack, GB_2, michaelh, ngraham, bruns<br /></div>