About the last year I did Java(Android)-programming, and did C# the Year before that. About a month now I'm learning C++, and since I got over friends, inheritance and stuff, I got a few questions, since I haven't been working with it up until now:
Is there a way for a class to define friends later on, because they need to exchange information or something. e.g. is there a way to define a 'random' friend later on? what do you need for that? The function's name or the address of the class?
Or is there generally a way to change the code from the program itself, so that it won't be necessary to recompile? e.g. creating new functions, classes or so?
I'd be very happy about any answer about that.
What you want to do is not possible with C++. If you need that sort of dynamically changing the program, you are better advised using a more dynamic higher-level language like Lisp.
friends can only be added to a class by modifying its source code. This is a feature, not a bug.