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From: arthur@solomon.technet.sg (Arthur Sombrito)
Subject: Re: Forward declaration of classes
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Manapragada Srinivas (srinivas@lgc.com) wrote:
: Is the following forward declaration valid?
: 
: 		class foo : public bar;
: 
: Where I am trying to declare that foo is a class which is publicly derived from 
: bar. It works like a charm in g++ 2.2.2, whereas SUN CC2.1 results in a syntax
: error. Which behaviour conforms to the standard? The ARM is silent on this
: issue. When I followed the grammar in the appendix the above type of syntax did
: not seem to be valid.
: 
: I would apreciate it very much if someone could shed some light on the above.
: 
: Thanks,
: Srinivas
: -- 
: Yonder, beyond the event horizon!

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I would say that is an invalid syntax since it is not in the grammar.