On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:57:06 -0700, Jonathan Turkanis wrote
"Javier Estrada" <ljestrada@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c2ib4s$meg$1@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>?
You might be interested in this email thread where this topic was previously discussed. http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg14932.php Turns out you are right to go to comp.std.c++ because the current standard basically precludes this. Of course, I'll be happy to post my attempt at this if you want to use it. Jeff