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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de>
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Subject: Re: Separate Compilation in Programming Languages
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:52:46 +0100
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adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:

> This morning, after an especially interesting argument about this feature
> and, "Why would
> anyone want to do such a thing?" style questions, I decided to approach
> this
> forum.  What
> is your view of Ada-style separate compilation when compared to that in
> other languages?
> Do you find it useful in your own practice?   Do you still use the "is
> separate" feature in
> a package body?

When put under version control, one can can easily track the development of
functions, instead of files as is the case for most projects developed in
C/C++, where the entire class is put in one large .cpp file.

While it is doable in C/C++ as well, it can't be expressed in the language
itself, which means that the compiler has no means of telling wether one .c
file logically belongs to another or not.

However, in either language it requires a bit of discipline from the
developers.

Bye...

        Dirk