Re: [boost] Should Boost adopt pimpl/d-pointer as much as it can?

Subject: Re: [boost] Should Boost adopt pimpl/d-pointer as much as it can?
From: Josh Faust (jfaust_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-23 13:48:00

>
> was that an argument?
> if so i say that separating declaration and implementation for non
> template code is a natural practice in C and C++ development
> i.e. declaration -- in headers (*.h), implementation -- in *.cpp or *.c
> personally i like the compile-once-link-any-time-you-want principle
>
>
Your comment made it sound like you wanted things to be header-only as much
as possible.  Auto-linking is not header only -- it only works on msvc, and
as you said it still requires you to set up your lib paths.

Josh