Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: GUI/GDI template library

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-02 11:36:01

At 05:52 AM 8/2/2003, E. Gladyshev wrote:
 >
 >--- Bohdan <gejrlaug_at_[hidden]> wrote:
 >>
 >> "E. Gladyshev" <egladysh_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
 >> > but which approach is better for GUI lib.
 >
 >I believe that I've made a strong case for ImplTraits
 >for GUI library. In the win32 case, the compilation
 >time penalties would be of the same order as including
 >windows.h

Including windows.h is not acceptable in user code, however. That's one of 
the (many) uses of opaque pointer idioms - avoiding implementation side 
effects like inclusion of unruly headers.

--Beman