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From: Pete Becker <petebecker@acm.org>
Subject: Re: PARTIAL CLASS DEFINITIONS
Date: 1999/06/12
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Greg Comeau wrote:
> 
> In article <7jqopn$cfu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> rado42@my-deja.com writes:
> >Here I would like to make a proposal for C++ extension and to suggest a
> >discussion about it.
> >
> >As all we know, one cannot access the members (both data and function)
> >of a class if  the class definition is not visible, e.g.
> >
> >class MyClass* a;
> >a->myMember();
> >
> >
> >will cause a compilation error: the compiler does not know that MyClass
> >has myMember(),  even if actually this is the case.
> >
> >That means that in order to use ANY class member, the code must see the
> >ENTIRE class definition: e.g.
> >
> >
> >class MyClass
> >{
> >stuff
> >stuff
> >more stuff
> >private stuff
> 
> I'm not clear on your proposal.  What is it, would you like to see
> that the class definition does not have to be visible (in whole or in part)?
> 

You shouldn't need to see the entire proposal. Can't you just figure it
out from what was presented? Just as the compiler could figure out what
MyClass really looks like, just from seeing how it's used.

-- 
Pete Becker
Dinkumware, Ltd.
http://www.dinkumware.com
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