Thread: two classes with methods that return each other by value

Where exactly are you experiencing an issue? If it's just with getting the compiler to process it, you could use a forward declaration of Vector above Row - although I think you'll then have to return a pointer/reference instead of a fully-fledged object. Alternatively, declare them as functions outside of (and below) the class definitions and you can have them both return objects.

On another note - why have you declared both transpose() methods to be static? If they both act on a single instance of their own class, it would make sense to make them both instance methods... no?

thanks anon and laserlight. this misconception had been kicking around for years, and it was only now that i had need to dispel it.

Originally Posted by JohnGraham

On another note - why have you declared both transpose() methods to be static? If they both act on a single instance of their own class, it would make sense to make them both instance methods... no?

they are equivalent, i personally think the static function is cleaner syntactically, but it's just a matter of taste.