> Aleksey Gurtovoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fernando Cacciola wrote: > > "Aleksey Gurtovoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > David Abrahams wrote: > > > > Here's an example I just cooked up of using the PP lib to solve a > > > > classic C++ OO problem: repeated boilerplate in the definition of > > > > Pimpl classes. > > > > > > There is another variation of the idiom, sometimes called "hidden > state", > > > which doesn't have the shortcoming in the first place: > > > > > A shortcoming of the hidden state idiom compared to the classic delegation > > idiom is that only the state is encapsulated, not the behaviour. > > I am not sure what do you mean by "encapsulated". Hidden in a source file as > opposite to the header? > Sort of. Hidden in any other file different from the file containing the declaration of the public interface.
> > IOWs, if you need to hide the operations, not just the state, you still > > need to mirror the interface class member functions into > > the impl class. > > How so? With the hidden state, what would be private member functions > becomes free functions at the file scope. > Ah... you didn't show this in your example... what you're right AFAICT. Fernando Cacciola _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost