「Pimpl」はかつて「チェシャ猫」と命名された | okuの日記 | スラドThe term "Cheshire Cat" (see [Murray1993]) is an old one, coined by John Carollan over a decade ago. Sadly it seems to have disappeared from use in contemporary C++ literature. It appears described as a special case of the "Bridge" pattern in "Design Patterns" [GOF95], but the name "Cheshire Cat" is not mentioned. Herb Sutter (in [Sut00]) discusses it under the name "Pimpl idiom", but considers it
