Re: forward declaration of class from another namespace

From:
Jeff Flinn <TriumphSprint2000@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:57:16 CST
Message-ID:
<hbvf6u$j45$1@news.eternal-september.org>
See inline below:

Sergey Lukoshkin wrote:

Hello, dear community!

I've faced such a problem:

1. I got header "headerA.h" with the following code:

----------------------------------------
#include "headerB.h"

namespace A
{
       class A
       {
            public:

               create_b_ojects()
               {
                    B* pB = new B( this );
               }
       };
}

-------------------------------------

2. And I got header "headerB.h" with the following code:
-------------------------------------------


namespace A { class A; }

namespace B
{

     class B
     {
           public:
             B(){}
             B( /* here I need to use pointer to object of type A::A
*/ ){....}
     };

}
-------------------------------------------
Question:
what is the correct way to make forward declaration of class A::A in
module B?


Jeff

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