Re: [boost] New libraries should provide forward declarations? (Benoit))

From: dherring_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-08-25 11:26:18

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, David Abrahams wrote:

>> This sounds exactly like
>> what I am trying to do, I already split the declarations into .h files
>> and the definitions into .hpp. Can you give a brief example of using a
>> single .cpp file for compilation? Is this done like MSVC stdafx files?
>
> For what it's worth, the Boost convention is that all C++ filenames end
> in "pp".  Those who follow the convention tend to use ".ipp" files for
> implementation headers.

By my count, boost ships 105 .ipp files and 274 _impl.hpp files...

- Daniel