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From: ugfailau@sunybcs.uucp (Fai Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A bad design decision early on in A
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Date: 3 Jan 88 17:35:06 GMT
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In article <47000028@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Data hiding is the worst idea ever invented. I really hate it when I find
>something declared as a "time_t", or , worse, those awful structures
  ........
>
>time_t itself is a rather ok idea, and I think one should be able to pass
>structures. What I object to is the actual "hiding" of the definition
>(in the sense of making it hard to find - it's usually in some 50 kilobyte
>header file that bogs down the compilation of every program that uses it.)
>
	I'll have to agree. If you have really settled in doing your
works in C, then you can't be too concerned about using things
like data hiding for its own sake. C is such a unstructured language
that the best way to use it is to use it in any which way it works.
C structure passing isn't the worse that can be. Module-2 is so
must worse.

Fai  Lau
SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland)
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