On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:30:55PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On second thoughts: I would agree to a solution using some kind of > > #ifdef as long as it does not lead to a #include <iosfwd> on vanilla > > Linux. > > There's no need for any #ifdef. If you want forward declarations, > then the iosfwd header was conceived just for that. If you don't > want that, feel free to change it.
Non sequitur. Guns were conceived to kill people. I think it is commonly accepted that using them for that purpose _without very specific very good reason_ is not a good idea. Andre'