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    You probably mean "Background" rather than "Foreplay". Also, relax with the text formatting--it makes your question harder to read. I am tempted to drastically edit your question and remove the background section, it's not really relevant.
    – sourcenouveau
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 11:40
  • @M.Dudley Go for it! I deal with HTML a lot and SEO and I'm tempted to emphasize things. I wrote the Background to explain what the library is about, the compiler and such. Knowing it's Windows / MSVC turf might produce different answers compare to other compilers that are more C++11 aware.
    – CodeAngry
    Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 12:02
  • Today, with clangd used as a language server by IDEs for code modeling, splitting the implementations into .inl files and including them at the bottom of header files result in error messages because the header files are not self-contained. See github.com/clangd/clangd/issues/45 . I went down the "split into .inl files" road myself for my own open-source library, and am now faced with this clangd problem. I now have to decide if I want to move the implementations back into the class declarations, or at the bottom of the class declaration within the same .hpp file.
    – Emile Cormier
    Commented Apr 20, 2022 at 20:51