Is there a way to hide private data members of a C++ class away from its users, in the cpp file? I think of the private members as part of the implementation and it seems a little backwards to declare them in the header file.
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Is there a way to hide private data members of a C++ class away from its users, in the cpp file? I think of the private members as part of the implementation and it seems a little backwards to declare them in the header file.
The ‘pimpl’ idiom is how this is generally handled.
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