James Kuyper Jr. wrote in message <37E818C2.70192ED0@wizard.net>...
>John Keenan wrote:
>>
>> What is the proper method to "forward declare" a class which is in a
>> namespace.
>
> namespace my_namespace
> {
> class Myclass;
> }
>
>You re-open the namespace later to complete the class declaration.

That is exactly what I was looking for... Thank you very much. I search hard
though my documentation but was not able to find this info... but now having
seen the answer, I am surprized I was not able to deduce it as it is
extremely consistent (as would be expected).



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John Keenan wrote in message ...
>
>What is the proper method to "forward declare" a class which is in a
>namespace.

You need to open the namespace
before declaring the fwd-ref. eg:

namespace Namespace
{
    class SomeClass; // fwd-ref
}

Namespace::SomeClass* pSomeClass;

HTH.

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What is the proper method to "forward declare" a class which is in a
namespace.

John Keenan
www.primustech.com



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John Keenan wrote:
>
> What is the proper method to "forward declare" a class which is in a
> namespace.

 namespace my_namespace
 {
  class Myclass;
 }

You re-open the namespace later to complete the class declaration.
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John Keenan <jskeenan@primustech.com> wrote:

> What is the proper method to "forward declare" a class which is in a
> namespace?

    namespace N {
        class C;
    }

    -- Darin


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On 21 Sep 1999 21:56:08 GMT, "John Keenan" <jskeenan@primustech.com> wrote:

>What is the proper method to "forward declare" a class which is in a
>namespace.
>
>John Keenan

namespace JohnsNamespace
{
   class Forwarded;

   class UsesForwarded
   {
   public:
      Forwarded * pForwarded;
   };

   class Forwarded { // body };
};

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