Wrapper around a recursive data type

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Monday, 8 July 2024 at 13:29:05 UTC, user1234 wrote:
> On Monday, 8 July 2024 at 08:56:51 UTC, drug007 wrote:
>> I need to generate some meta info of my data types. I do it 
>> this [...]
>> How can I "break" this recursion or some other work around to 
>> fix it?
>
> Use `Node*[]` for the children type. That way the compiler 
> knows the size of the (previously) problematic member. In other 
> words, instead of the need to know `Node` size, the compiler 
> will not look further, it's a pointer.

This isn't the issue exactly. `Node[]` is a pointer as well.

The issue is that the template recursively depends on itself.

You would run into the same issue if the template recursed on the 
type of the pointed-at value.

-Steve