Re: [pclasses-devel] template classes

[stephan b. <st...@s1...>]

On Monday 27 December 2004 17:00, Marc Duerner wrote:
> Hi,
> Some people split template classes into .h and .tcc files. The .tcc 
> is included at the end of a .h file and contains the definitions for
> the functions declared in the header. Should we do the same?
> If yes how do we call the files? .tpp?

That's an interesting idea. The gnu STL is distributed this way, it 
think - or something similar. My initial reaction is "eeek!" but i 
can't really qualify that. i find it difficult enough that the the 
headers and source are in different dirs. There IS actually a problem 
with doing so: the modules start to depend on one-another without 
realizing it, because they can all read each others' headers. In the 
QUB project we found a technique which literally elminates that 
possibility, which i mimic under src/s11n/...

Anyway - i would vote no, but i'm also a big fan of majority rule, so i 
won't whine if i'm out-voted. :)



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