[Boost-users] Re: pimpl and Qt

From: gruenedd_at_[hidden]
Date: 2005-05-19 16:34:41

> 1. Global namespace pollution. That can be easily fixed, by making
> FooPrivate innter class of Foo.

I don't think that a struct supplied with and named like the class
followed by Private is a pollution, and it matches the naming
conventions in Qt3. You can make it an inner class, but what i tried to
point out is that you have to make the type public, because the
generated code from moc needs access to that structure in cases.
I gave that hint, that beginners avoid this issue from the beginning.

> 2. High danger of unexpected behaviour if implementation of assignment
> and copy contrsuctor is omitted or incorrect. If you forget to
> implement copy operator and then ....

I leaved that out. Of course you can use copy constructors and stuff or you
favorite smartpointer, or both or whatever one prefer...

--David