Re: Forward declarations, templates, and typedefs
"mlimber" <mlimber@gmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
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Jonathan Mcdougall wrote:
mlimber wrote:
Noah Roberts wrote:
I like templates but getting rid of the compile time
dependencies with
them can be tough...
Sometimes it's impossible. For instance, you can't (portably)
forward-declare STL containers such as std::vector since
implementations are permitted to attach as many extra template
parameters as they like, so long as they're given defaults.
Last I heard, that's wrong. See http://tinyurl.com/oestb.
I stand corrected!
Cheers! --M
The real reason you cannot forward declare std::vector is that it has
default template parameters. For some reason, the language doesn't let
you repeat the defaults in both a template definition and a
declaration. So, as long as the std::vector definition contains those
defaults, you cannot write a valid declaration for it.
Note that iosfwd solves this problem for iostreams, but not for any
other std::classes.
Bo Persson
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