[petsc-dev] Forward declarations of types?

[Jed Brown]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think we should just double all include files:
>
>   petscksp.h
>   petsckspfwd.h
>
> You don't have to know anything about petsc*fwd.h unless you
> want lightweight includes, and there is no way to misinterpret what it is.
>

petsc*fwd.h or petsc*types.h? Is there an established convention here?

I agree that this makes the code much more systematic. It will impact users
significantly if we apply this to Mat and Vec, but then
include-what-you-use would work precisely.
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