From 8456775209431503507 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,5e585716c0fba88e,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: vladimir@tees.cs.ualberta.ca (Vladimir Alexiev) Subject: why are private functions part of a class' interface? Date: 1995/04/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 100371620 organization: Computing Science, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Whenever I add a private helper function to a class, I have to change its interface in the .h file and thus recompile all dependent classes (unless I use touch to bump back the timestamp). I think it would be useful to permit member function definitions without requiring a declaration.