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regarding headers(unknown type name!,nested too deep;y)

wavy19 (2)
hello there hope you doing well. so i have this problem when i am trying to make a declaration for a child class in a parent class it gives me this error:
unknown type name 'Gold'and that is because i haven't include the headers. However, when i include the the headers it gives me the error nested too deeply!!

here is the code:

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#ifndef GOLD_H
#define GOLD_H

 #include"Events.h"

class Gold: public Events {
    
private:
    char gold;
    
    
public:
    Gold();
  void set_gold();
  char get_gold();
    
};

#endif  


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#include"Gold.h"

Gold::Gold(){
    gold='$';
    
}

  void Gold::set_gold(){
      gold='$';
  }
  char Gold::get_gold(){
      
      return gold;
  }


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#include"Gold.h"

#ifndef EVENTS_H
#define EVENTS_H
class Events{
    
private:
Gold *g; 
public:
    
    
};

#endif 

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Bdanielz (506)
" i am trying to make a declaration for a child class in a parent class"
If I understand you. You cannot do the above. The parent class does not "know" about the child class.
Peter87 (11178)
Are you sure this relationship makes sense. What is an "events" and is a "gold" object really an "events" (whatever that is)?

You can make it compile by putting a forward declaration of Gold in Events.h instead of including the header file.

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#include "Gold.h"
class Gold;

If the Events class use the Gold class (create objects, call member functions, etc.) you'll have to include Gold.h from Events.cpp.
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