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From: jmartin@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Jay M Martin)
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Subject: Re: C++ Envy
Date: 19 Jan 1995 21:30:13 -0800
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I am confused : "Change the makefile?".  Suppose a programmer
is maintaining a piece of code (file) which includes "blah.h".  Now
the programmer needs to make a change to the code and being a
typical macho C type he thinks that "protection is for wimps" and
is sure that he could save a few pico seconds per hour if he could massage
the insides of the objects of the classes in blah.h directly.  So
he does the define trick in the file he is modifying and configures it.
Note that no changes need to be made to blah.h or the makefile. 
Of course, a year later after the C stud has gone to greener pastures
the classes in blah.h are changed causing all his code to break.

Jay