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From: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Managing C++ Libraries: Dependencies and Headers
Message-ID: <6170002@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 88 21:44:51 GMT
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>If such a pre-linker/processor is implemented, maybe we wouldn't need
>to explicitly #include files anymore? The preprocessor could look for
>declarations of external objects and identifiers in a database or library

I believe that Eiffel does just that.

John Hardin
hardin%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com