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Re: Many forward reference in the code. Is it a ugly design?

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On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:48:44 -0700, KaiWen wrote:

> Sorry, my english is not good. I'm a new hand. I use forward references to
> break circular dependencies. It's just a smell when I wrote my class. I
> felt it's not good when there are too many forward references. As you
> said, I need a general rule. Is there any way (or pattern, if there is,
> too happy) to avoid this.

Too many circular dependencies tends to indicate a lack of modularity,
every component needing to know the details of every other component.

One way to eliminate such dependencies is by splitting a class into an
interface (with no member variables and only pure virtual methods) and an
implementation (which derives from the interface).

E.g. rather than A having a reference to B and B having a reference to A,
A has a reference to X, B is derived from X, B has a reference to A. These
can be defined in the order X, A, B, with no circularity.

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Many forward reference in the code. Is it a ugly design? KaiWen <wenkai1987@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 20:33 -0700
  Re: Many forward reference in the code. Is it a ugly design? Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2011-08-13 22:42 -0500
    Re: Many forward reference in the code. Is it a ugly design? KaiWen <wenkai1987@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 21:27 -0700
      Re: Many forward reference in the code. Is it a ugly design? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-08-14 05:54 +0000
        Re: Many forward reference in the code. Is it a ugly design? KaiWen <wenkai1987@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 23:56 -0700
    Re: Many forward reference in the code. Is it a ugly design? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach:usenet@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 07:27 +0200
      Re: Many forward reference in the code. Is it a ugly design? KaiWen <wenkai1987@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 23:48 -0700
        Re: Many forward reference in the code. Is it a ugly design? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-14 10:32 +0100
          Re: Many forward reference in the code. Is it a ugly design? KaiWen <wenkai1987@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 05:13 -0700
        Re: Many forward reference in the code. Is it a ugly design? Paul N <gw7rib@aol.com> - 2011-08-15 13:15 -0700
      Re: Many forward reference in the code. Is it a ugly design? KaiWen <wenkai1987@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 00:10 -0700

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