Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!metaphor!jobone!emg From: emg@jobone.metaphor.com (Mike Greenawalt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: THINK C linking wish Message-ID: <1858@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> Date: 7 Dec 90 22:28:51 GMT References: <16796@natinst.natinst.com> <109545@convex.convex.com> <1842@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> Sender: news@metaphor.Metaphor.COM Reply-To: emg@jobone.metaphor.com (Mike Greenawalt) Distribution: usa Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA Lines: 20 In article phils@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Phil Shapiro) writes: [stuff deleted] > Please contrast using a "project" versus using a "library". In my > opinion the Think C docs are a bit weak in this area. > >Sorry to futher confuse the issue... You are correct, only "nested" >projects (that is, projects that are added to other projects) support >this link optimization. I get in the habit of calling projects that >are used in this way "libraries" -- most programmers would never want >to use real libraries. > > -phil I have to disagree rather strongly with that last comment. I think most programmers *would* want to use *real* libraries. When is Think C going to have some? -- Mike Greenawalt