Sometimes, you want to provide a class declaration, which is not merely an opaque forward declaration but has the public functionality exposed - yet you don't want to commit to your private, or implementation-specific, fields and methods. One solution for this is the pimpl idiom - using a pointer to an inner class, housing the implementation of the class exposed publicly.
I don't really like using pimpl and wish the language would allow you to have really-private members - so that code using the class does not 'see' their declaration (and thus probably doesn't need to be recompiled when the implementation details change). Also, recently, I've noticed C++ has been evolving much faster - a 3-year tick-tock pattern in standard updates. So... is there a proposal to add such functionality to C++? Do some compilers currently support it perhaps?