Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!taumet!steve From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: C++ Linkage, Interface Issues Message-ID: <384@taumet.com> Date: 6 Aug 90 14:02:44 GMT References: <7921@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <380@taumet.com> < <1990Aug4.233013.20500@cs.columbia.edu>> <383@taumet.com> <9714@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego Lines: 14 rpk@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Robert Krajewski) writes: >What is needed is a new kind of library, an interface library, that >contains, effectively, a pre-digested form of what is found in header >files. Of course, a new kind of library would require new code and >changes to compilers, but the benefit would be the end of brainless >and slow reparsing of header files. Wait a minute, wait a minute ... this seems like deja-vu ... I see a vision ... it's ... Ada packages! ... no, it's ... Pascal units! ... no, it's Modula modules! ... Can it be this problem has been solved before? -- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com