Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> >On Sun, 9 Feb 2025, 00:24 Frederick Virchanza Gotham wrote: >> As the GNU compiler make its way through a translation unit, more and >> more classes get declared. So for each translation unit, the compiler >> maintains a list of what types it has seen so far. >> >> Could someone please point me to where in the GNU g++ source code I >> will find this container object? What's the name of the container, and >> in what source file is it defined? >> >> I want to add 'std::vector' to the container implicitly so that we can >> write a translation unit without needing to do "#include <vector>". My >> end game idea is to add forward declarations for all standard library >> classes. > > > Why? That seems like it will just permit invalid code. > > Why not use 'import std;' instead?
This would be an alternative to modules (seeing as how modules might become deprecated in the future). The idea is that every standard library class would be implicitly forward-declared, meaning you don't have to do "#include <vector>" if you need a forward declaration for std::vector.
