Thread: Recursive Data Structure

Hi.
Pardon me if this is an obvious one...
Is there a way to get around C++'s refusal to have a class member that's an instance of the class itself...?
What I'd like is:

Code:

class MyClass {
  int myClassMember01;
  struct myStruct {
    int myStructMember01;
    MyClass myStructMember02;
  } myClassMember02;
}; // End declaration of MyClass

But what is allowed is:

Code:

class MyClass {
  int myClassMember01;
  struct myStruct {
    int myStructMember01;
    MyClass & myStructMember02;
  } myClassMember02;
}; // End declaration of MyClass

I am writing a model of a hardware architecture and it'd be conceptually much more realistic if I could use the first of the two above.
Any suggestions?
Is it in fact true to say that the first example is just conceptually impossible in C++?
Cheers.