> Am 11.09.2015 um 19:59 schrieb Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke.fl...@gmail.com>:
>
>> On 2015-09-11 13:41, Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
>> You can further reduce the "dependency tree" of your sources by
>> making use of the private "d-pointer" pattern (there is a name for
>> it which currently escapes me)
>
> PIMPL? ;-)
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimpl
Exactly :) Even though I had the term "Cheshire Cat" in mind :) (I yet have to
google why that pattern is named after a cat).
But while we're there, quoting from that article:
"One type of opaque pointer commonly used in C++ class declarations is the
d-pointer. The d-pointer is the only private data member of the class and
points to an instance of a struct. Named by Arnt Gulbrandsen of Trolltech, this
method allows class declarations to omit private data members, except for the
d-pointer itself.[6] The result: (a) more of the class implementation is hidden
from view; (b) adding new data members to the private struct does not affect
binary compatibility; (c) the header file containing the class declaration only
needs to #include those other files needed for the class interface, rather than
for its implementation. One side benefit is that compilations are faster
because the header file changes less often. The d-pointer is heavily used in
the Qt and KDE libraries."
Couldn't have explained it better :) Oh and yes, Trolltech is the initial
company(*) that brought us Qt! ;)
Cheers,
Oliver
(*) IIRC they did have (slightly) different names before that
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