Im reading "Teach yourself C++ in 21 days" at the moment, and I have reached the 19th day. There is a code piece I really cant understand in that chapter:

template <class T>
bool operator== (const T& lhs, const T& rhs)
{
  //I dont understand this if-statement ...

  if (lhs.CellsInLinkedList() != rhs.CellsInLinkedList())
    return 0;

  ... // more code


  return 1; // if nothing went wrong

}

This operator is declared as friend to a linked list named LinkedList. This means LinkedList would give access to the class functions, and T alone should give access to the parametirized type (int, char, cAnimal, whatever). What I dont understand is how in the world "const T& lhs" and "const T& rhs" can give access to the entire classes ??? Please help me straighten this out! [edited by - rhide on July 28, 2003 8:49:11 PM]

Forget about my question, It was 03:30 PM (local time) when i posted this message, but i realized my wrong not very long time aftewards.

The parameter was a function (LinkedListNode), lol