private static function

[romand]

EDIT: ***SOLUTION FOUND***
Just to check, before I had the 2 functions in the second code box I used in the main the logger function and when I got it to be private I haven't erased the lines in the main.
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Question:
hello, If you remember me from yesterday, having some problems. I've defined a helpFunctions.c pp class with static functions. now I have a static function that I don't need the user to see so I'm trying to make it private.it works fine as public but once I put it in the private scope here is what I get:

private:
	static void logger(string message, string outputFileName="")
{

		Logger& loggerInstance = Logger::getInstance();
		if(outputFileName != "")
		{
			loggerInstance.initialize(outputFileName);
		}
		else
		{
			loggerInstance.addMsg(message);
		}
}

the error: ‘static void helpFunctions:: logger(std::str ing, std::string)’ is private.

If it would help the logger instance that I'm using is a singleton instance.
The reason to put It private is because I have two functions:

	static void initialize(string outputFileName)
	{
		logger("",outputFileName);
	}
	static void addMsg(string message)
	{
		logger(message);
	}

So I don't want the user to use a the logger in a potentially wrong way.

thanks,
romand

[Savage]

EDIT: ***SOLUTION FOUND***
Just to check, before I had the 2 functions in the second code box I used in the main the logger function and when I got it to be private I haven't erased the lines in the main.
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Question:
hello, If you remember me from yesterday, having some problems. I've defined a helpFunctions.c pp class with static functions. now I have a static function that I don't need the user to see so I'm trying to make it private.it works fine as public but once I put it in the private scope here is what I get:

private:
	static void logger(string message, string outputFileName="")
{

		Logger& loggerInstance = Logger::getInstance();
		if(outputFileName != "")
		{
			loggerInstance.initialize(outputFileName);
		}
		else
		{
			loggerInstance.addMsg(message);
		}
}

the error: ‘static void helpFunctions:: logger(std::str ing, std::string)’ is private.

If it would help the logger instance that I'm using is a singleton instance.
The reason to put It private is because I have two functions:

	static void initialize(string outputFileName)
	{
		logger("",outputFileName);
	}
	static void addMsg(string message)
	{
		logger(message);
	}

So I don't want the user to use a the logger in a potentially wrong way.

thanks,
romand

Simply put,you do not need that function at all.You can write initialize() like a first part of the logger function and addMsg() as the else case.Or if you want you can make a class which will wrap around logger adding another layer of indirection and than put that class as a static member:

class LogWrapper
{
private:
   void logger(string msg,string file="")
   {
         //Implementation
   }

friend class helperFunctions; //logger is private method,only friends can access            
                                          //them.
};


//Your helperFunctions class(or however do you call it) 
private:
   Logwrapper wrapper;

};

	static void initialize(string outputFileName)
	{
		wrapper.logger("",outputFileName);
	}
	static void addMsg(string message)
	{
		wrapper.logger(message);
	}

It's your call,but I would opt for the first one.