C++ code readability: use structs or inner lasses or something else?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Hi guys,

I’m currently making a c++ project and recently came up with a problem, that my code is becoming hard to read. I need to somehow group different parts of code into smaller subgroups for easier navigation (or at least only inside .h file).

I want to make something like this:
class UActor
{
group1
{
func1();
int var1;
}
gropu2
{
func2();
}
}

I found 2 ways to solve this problem - use structures or inner classes, but neither of them let me use variables from main class. Or maybe there is another solution?

Thanks

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There are multiple ways, but if you simply want to split into subgroups you can use different namespaces. You can declare a namespace inside the class declaration and put related functions and variables inside it. Here’s an example:

class UActor
{
public:
    void func1();
    void func2();

    namespace Group1
    {
        void func3();
        int var1;
    }

    namespace Group2
    {
        void func4();
    }
};

You can then access these functions and variables using the scope resolution operator, like this:

UActor actor;
UActor::Group1::var1 = 42;
UActor::Group2::func4();
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Thanks!

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