Re: Splitting a huge class to multiple files?

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:15:57 -0400
Message-ID:
<gskguv$9rb$2@news.datemas.de>
Lionel B wrote:

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:36:58 +0000, Solang wrote:

Hi,

  I just start learning C++ and have no exeperience with class. I want
  to
port my C program to C++.
There are too many member functions and I want to split them into
different files.
What is the simplest method to do it?


You'll almost certainly want to keep all the function *declarations* in a
single header file[*], since this represents the (programatic) interface
to your class functionality. There is nothing stopping you, however, from
splitting member function *definitions* (i.e. implementations) across
several files.

That said, if your class is so huge that this is really an issue, that
suggests to me that you might want to re-think your design.

[*] in fact I know no way of splitting a class declaration across files,


Actually, it is the class *definition* that cannot be split. Just
making sure we all use the right terms.

except using some #include and/or other macro ugliness


V
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