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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Prototypes, was Why NULL is 0
Message-ID: <788@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 88 04:57:43 GMT
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Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <25699@cca.CCA.COM>, g-rh@cca.CCA.COM (Richard Harter) writes:
> 	I mean, of course, none of these things.  I was referring to
> the ancient and venerable principle of programming that an entity should
> only be defined in one place.

The trouble is that this conflicts with another ancient and venerable
principle of programming:  declaration before use.

The cleanest answer would seem to be to have a set of programming tools
which let you construct a forest of entities (types, variables, functions)
and generate vanilla C code on request.  (Sort of an |R**n for C.)
(Preprocessors don't *have* to generate unreadable code; some of the
clearest Fortran I've ever seen came out of a preprocessor.)