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by apaprocki 5301 days ago
That is not the stated purpose of the tool (to write code in the aforementioned style):

  "Include what you use" means this: for every symbol (type,  
  function variable, or macro) that you use in foo.cc, either 
  foo.cc or foo.h should #include a .h file that exports the 
  declaration of that symbol.
I agree 100% with that statement. According to the style, foo.h can never #include anything.
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That's not true - you can't forward-declare types used in class member variables for instance.