transformation from Java to C++

Hi, I'm working on creating a tool to automatically transform Java
code to C++ code.


I'm interested in how I could capture the "package friendly" access
qualifier from Java in C++.


I have come up with two alternatives, neither of them are particularly
appealing to me:


1. Lose the finer grain access that Java provides and fall back to
public - this would result in more classes having access to these
member variables than originally desired.


2. Use the friend qualifier between ``accessor functions'' (get and
set type functions in classes) within classes thus allowing classes in
the same namespace (analogous concept to Java's package) to access the
member variables of a class through the accessor functions.


Also, I'm not interested in using someone else's implementation of
this work, as there are some concepts that I need to implement outside
of a strict one for one transformation.


Thanks for any input,
Novice

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