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reply Satoshi <satoshi rikarin.org> writes:
Hi,
do someone have any experience with pImpl and inheritance in D?

I tried something like:

// FooPrivate.d
class FooPrivate {
     int a;
}


// BarPrivate.d
import FooPivate;

class BarPrivate : FooPrivate {
     string b;
}


// Foo.d
import FooPrivate;

class Foo {
     protected FooPrivate m_private;

     this() { m_private = new FooPrivate; }
}


// Bar.d
import Foo;
import FooPrivate;
import BarPrivate;

class Bar : Foo {
     this() { m_private = new BarPrivate; }
}


And public interface
// Foo.di
class FooPrivate;
class Foo {
     private FooPrivate m_private;
}


Bar.d looks like it imported Foo with forward referenced 
FooPrivate and is unable to resolve it by importing FooPrivate.

Is this bug?
Do you know about any *less verbose* design pattern how I can 
hide implementaion details from .di files?

Thanks!
Apr 04 2017
next sibling parent Satoshi <satoshi rikarin.org> writes:
test/Foo.di(3,1): Error: class test.Foo.FooPrivate is forward 
referenced when looking for 'opAssign'

forward reference in Foo.di


test/Bar.d(14,25): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression 
(p) of type test.BarPrivate.BarPrivate to test.Foo.FooPrivate

I'm unable to cast from BarPrivate to FooPrivate because it can't 
recognize Bar : Foo; inheritance from Foo.di (FooPrivate.d and 
BarPrivate.d is ignored).


test/Foo.di(3,1): Error: class test.Foo.FooPrivate is forward 
referenced when looking for 'opCast'

same as first
Apr 04 2017
prev sibling parent Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 4 April 2017 at 12:05:15 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
 Hi,
 do someone have any experience with pImpl and inheritance in D?
Some parts of Phobos use it. Example: https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/stdio.d Have a look at the struct ByLine It has something like: struct ByLine(Char, Terminator) { private: import std.typecons : RefCounted, RefCountedAutoInitialize; /* Ref-counting stops the source range's Impl * from getting out of sync after the range is copied, e.g. * when accessing range.front, then using std.range.take, * then accessing range.front again. */ alias PImpl = RefCounted!(Impl, RefCountedAutoInitialize.no); PImpl impl;
Apr 04 2017