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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: d-pointers (Was: naming convention for member variables)
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2001-06-11 21:02:47
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On Monday 11 June 2001 21:56, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> changes you may make to a class. To make it easier to make changes later on
> without breaking binary compatibility we don't add class members to the
> class directly, but add them indirectly via a so called private d-pointer.

OK, so that's the 4th name I've heard for this idiom. Others are compile 
firewall, cheshire cat idiom, and pimple idiom (for "private implementation").

I recall a post from James Kanze on c.l.c++.moderated where he was saying 
that this was the only idiom for which everyone had a different name. :-)

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					Guillaume.
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