[glossary] add details about why forward declarations are useful
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Description
Generally forward declarations are useful when trying to avoid headers (and their deps) being public and/or to reduce compile times. This ticket is to track adding this note to the glossary.
/cc @GretaCB
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the glossary and the existing entry for forward declarations. Add a concise note explaining their usefulness for avoiding public headers and dependencies and for reducing compile times, then verify that the glossary remains correctly formatted.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100