What comes to you first when you are reading the title?
This is what I was thinking about
- My family introduce Jack to me and supposed we can be friends just because our father are friends.
- Tom introduce Jerry to me and supposed we can be friends just because Jerry is Tom’s friend.
This is always the situations that someone is introduced to you (sometimes even without knowing his/her name) and they take it for granted that you two can build a friendship bound because another friendship. When this situation happens, “Friendship is neither inherited nor transitive.” describes perfectly my thoughts.
To clarify, these stories are not mine but from my friends. I am not questioning the “make friends” part but the “take it for granted” part. Actually, I have friends that our dads or mums are friends and I also have friends of my friends are my friends, but these situations do exist.
BUT
This is where I found this topic:
Working Draft, Standard for Programming
Language C ++
This sentence is at chapter 14 Member Access Control, section 3 Friend. It is at passage 10 and with an example: