Re: Style: always declare subrountines?

[John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>]

Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> 
> > And of course, if P.Implementation changes, P.Public has to be recompiled
> > (because the size of P.Implementation.Stuff might have changed) and
> > clients of P.Public will therefore have to be recompiled (because the
> > size of P.Public.T might have changed). Or are you talking about
> > something different to this?
> 
> My dumb brain suggests, that a privatly declared type can be used elsewhere
> in the program. If the size of this type depends on an other package, the
> using package does not notice it and allocates the wrong size. (Yep, dumb.)

Ah, I would hope that any compiler I use has a dependency manager that
can cope with this...

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