[boost] Re: Proposal for a <stdfwd> header

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-13 12:57:06

"Javier Estrada" <ljestrada_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:c2ib4s$meg$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> A couple of weeks ago I posted in c++ moderated:
>
> It seems natural that if there is a <iosfwd> to forward declare the
I/O
> related classes, there should be a header for the classes contained
in the
> std namespace.
>

I think comp.std.c++ is where you should post this.

I'd also like to have a facility for forward declaring names in std;
it should definitely be more fine-grained than <stdfwd>, though. Why
not have <xxxfwd> headers for standard headers <xxx> not currently
covered by <iosfwd>?

Jonathan