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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Can we hide the private part of a class ?
Keywords: header dependency, efficiency.
Message-ID: <10681@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 3 Oct 88 00:24:49 GMT
References: <1358@stratus> <1988Sep29.044111.16104@utzoo.uucp> <4193@polya.Stanford.EDU> <1368@cumulus>
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In article <1368@cumulus> hsu@cumulus.UUCP (Yung-Kao Hsu) writes:

>The header dependency simply forces re-compilation of all program
>units if some private declarations were changed (which shouldn't cause any
>problem to any other classes).

You can't really say that. What if something like sizeof() was used?
Adding or removing private members from a class may change its size.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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