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Exceptional C++: 47 Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions
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Exceptional C++: 47 Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions

by Herb Sutter
November 1999
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 22m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 28. Minimizing Compile-time Dependencies—Part 3

Difficulty: 7

Now the unnecessary headers have been removed, and needless dependencies on the internals of the class have been eliminated. Is there any further decoupling that can be done? The answer takes us back to basic principles of solid class design.

The Incredible Shrinking Header has now been greatly trimmed, but there may still be ways to reduce the dependencies further. What further #includes could be removed if we made further changes to X, and how?

This time, you may make any changes to X as long as they don't change its public interface so that existing code that uses X is unaffected beyond requiring a simple recompilation. Again, note that the comments are important.

 // x.h: after ...
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