----- Mensaje original ----- De: Gennadiy Rozental <gennadiy.rozental@thomson.com> [...]

How presence of unrelated class foo affects access in class AA?

That's the funny thing about it. In your code, from where I came up with this, the error with p_stages_amount pops out due to the presence of other, unrelated objects of type class_property.

Is it important that method is called foo also?

No, it is not relevant. You might want to play with the snippet using the online Comeau compiler at: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/tryitout/ Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo