Re: [Quantlib-dev] coding style

[DU V. DE V. F. G. P. <fra...@ca...>]

>Non necessarily. Let's say we have:

>- a class Foo declared in foo.hpp and implemented in foo.cpp;
>- a class Bar that stores, say, a pointer to Foo. In bar.hpp, we
>  only need a forward declaration of Foo. In bar.cpp (where the
>  Foo object is manipulated) we need to include foo.hpp.
>- a class Baz which takes a pointer to Foo as argument, passes it
>  to a Bar, and stores (and possibly manipulates) the resulting Bar.

>Since Baz is not going to use Foo directly, baz.cpp does not need to
>include its definition---the forward declaration in bar.hpp is
>enough---and can be compiled successfully without including foo.hpp.

Ok you win me over, thanks for this detailled explanation.
Regards,

Fran=E7ois=20