Re: [boost] Are there any interest in a pimpl library?

From: Joseph Gauterin (josephmgauterin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-27 07:45:01

Could you be more specific as to what functionality such a library would 
supply? If you already have an implementation then an example of it's use 
would be interesting.

It is my understanding that the pimpl idiom is fairly simple yet also class 
specific. I currently implement it like this:

In the .hpp
class foo
{
   ....
   private:
      class pimpl_t;
      pimpl_t* pimpl;
};

in the .cpp

#incldue "foo.hpp"
class foo::pimpl_t
{
public:
    //private data
};

I don't readily see how this could be abstracted, so an example would help 
me to see what you are proposing more clearly.

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