Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip stuff addressed elsewhere] > I agree with the goal of more hiding. > > You can do this in C by using an incomplete structure type in most > places, and then, in the files where you want the definition visible, > defining the structure to have a single field of the enumerated > type. That is a little messy, but it is C++-compatible. (In fact, in > ISO C++, without the additions presently in the WP, you can't do > better; forward declarations of enums are still not allowed.)
Doesn't work, at least not as a drop-in replacement; you can't pass an incomplete structure by value. We do do this in places where there's a real structure that can be passed around by pointer... zw
