Passing private member into non class function

Long story short, I need the recursive function recQS to sort the private member variable "list.items". Items is of vector<T> type. I simply cannot figure out how to do this without declaring recQS as a friend to UList. How can I pass it into recQS? I've been searching the boards for a couple of hours.

Code:

template <class Y>
void sort(UList<Y>& list){
  recQS(list.items, 0, list.size()-1);
}

void recQS(_______, size_t first, size_t last){
...
...
...
}

Thanks for any help you might be able to offer!

A little more code would probably help you get some kind of answer. Perhaps you could post the code for your class so we can see what type of variables you are actually working with.

Jim

Originally Posted by brunion1

Long story short, I need the recursive function recQS to sort the private member variable "list.items". Items is of vector<T> type. I simply cannot figure out how to do this without declaring recQS as a friend to UList. How can I pass it into recQS? I've been searching the boards for a couple of hours.

Code:

template <class Y>
void sort(UList<Y>& list){
  recQS(list.items, 0, list.size()-1);
}

void recQS(_______, size_t first, size_t last){
...
...
...
}

Thanks for any help you might be able to offer!

recQS() shouldn't need to be declared a friend since it just takes a vector and two integers as arguments. But sort() no doubt needs to be (unless of course you just make it a member function, which wouldn't be such a bad idea)...

Post some real code!