Re: Forward declaration vs including a header file
"Daniel Ranger" <dranger003@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag =
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Hi, I have an issue where I have two classes that require a complete
declaration of each other in order to compile and I can't get it to
work. Here's my code:
// IncludeFile1.h
#pragma once
#include "IncludeFile2.h"
using namespace NameSpace2;
namespace NameSpace1 {
class Obj1 {
public:
Obj2 m_obj2;
inline void method() { }
inline void ObjMethod() { m_obj2.method(); }
};
}
// IncludeFile2.h
#pragma once
#include "IncludeFile1.h"
using namespace NameSpace1;
namespace NameSpace2 {
class Obj2 {
public:
Obj1 m_obj1;
inline void method() { }
inline void ObjMethod() { m_obj1.method(); }
};
}
The above doesn't compile. I can't forward declare because of the
namespace & because of the ObjMethod() being defined in the header =
file
and I can't include each other's header file because they require each
other...
There must be a simple answer...
Think about your design. If your namespaces are so closely related that =
one cannot be defined without the other, they probably should be only =
one namespace. And for the classes -- forget it! Any instance of Obj1 =
would containe an instance of Obj2, which containes an instance of Obj1, =
which contains an instance of Obj2, which ...
That would result in a really large object, and your computer has not =
enough memory to hold such an object (and you don't have enough money to =
by enough memory). And of cause, calling, say, Obj1::ObjMethod would =
take a really long time.
Heinz
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