Declarations and Definitions in One Header

From: Steven T. Hatton (susudata_at_setidava.kushan.aa)
Date: 04/25/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:56:09 -0400

Now why didn't *_I_* think of that!

Declarations and Definitions in One Header

C++ object definitions can be quite complex. In principle, your source code
will need two kinds of things for each object that you use across more than
one source file. First, you need an interface specification, describing its
structure with type declarations and function prototypes. Second, you need
the implementation itself. It can be tedious to maintain a separate
interface description in a header file, in parallel to the actual
implementation. It is also dangerous, since separate interface and
implementation definitions may not remain parallel.

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