// example_fwd.hpp
// Here necessary to forward declare the template class,
// you don't want people to declare them in case you wish to add
// another template symbol (with a default) later on
class MyClass;
template <class T> class MyClassT;

// example.hpp
#include "project/example_fwd.hpp"

// Those can't really be skipped
#include <string>
#include <vector>

#include "project/pimpl.hpp"

// Those can be forward declared easily
#include "project/foo_fwd.hpp"

namespace project { class Bar; }

namespace project
{
  class MyClass
  {
  public:
    struct Color // Limiting scope of enum
    {
      enum type { Red, Orange, Green };
    };
    typedef Color::type Color_t;

  public:
    MyClass(); // because of pimpl, I need to define the constructor

  private:
    struct Impl;
    pimpl<Impl> mImpl; // I won't describe pimpl here :p
  };

  template <class T> class MyClassT: public MyClass {};
} // namespace project

// example_impl.hpp (not visible to clients)
#include "project/example.hpp"
#include "project/bar.hpp"

template <class T> void check(MyClass<T> const& c) { }

// example.cpp
#include "example_impl.hpp"

// MyClass definition