From c8b7e50be2f9e47772bddb1fb62896a9590484e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Wells <wellsd2@rpi.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:03:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Simplify the forward declarations.

ParameterHandler does not need a forward declaration because none of the
Pattern classes use it.
---
 include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h | 13 ++-----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h b/include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h
index 6042d7b3b4..95350a6be7 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h
@@ -32,18 +32,9 @@
 
 DEAL_II_NAMESPACE_OPEN
 
-//TODO: Allow long input lines to be broken by appending a backslash character
-
-
-// public classes; to be declared below
-class ParameterHandler;
-class MultipleParameterLoop;
-
-
-
-// forward declaration
+// forward declarations for interfaces and friendship
 class LogStream;
-
+class MultipleParameterLoop;
 
 
 /**
-- 
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