> IMO your rewording of the explanation of forward declaration also leaves > something to be desired.
Yes, it is difficult to explain, for me, in english. I just tried, as only complaining is sometime too easy. For the forward declaration, I think there is already a secret pragma to make it unnecessary, I once tried it, was working, but have never really used it. Relaxing forward declarations was mentioned a few times, some people would really love it. Recently someone in IRC talked about new problems when forward declarations would be relaxed, I think it was related to templates or macros and their order
