Re: Separate Compilation in Programming Languages

[Ray Blaak <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net>]

<adaworks@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> > But usually the interface and its implementations are in separate files, as
> > per the usual Java rule of one class per file. That separation is what allows
> > Java to have separate compilation.
> >
> But only for Interface-based designs.   

Well yes. The point is only that it is possible in Java, the denial of which
is what I was objecting to.

Furthermore, interface designs are indeed done in practice when necessary
precisely since they address the situations when dependencies need to be
controlled.

> Further, the implementation of the Interface, with its extended signature is
> in the same file with the algorithmic code.

Actually no. This is highly unusual. The vast majority of implementation
classes would reside in different files from their inferfaces.

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