Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!rang From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Anyone want to design a languag Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 90 19:51:01 GMT References: <1944@l.cc.purdue.edu> <7300007@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <15190@bfmny0.UU.NET> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Organization: UW-Madison CS department Lines: 18 In-reply-to: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET's message of 20 Feb 90 18:54:00 GMT In article <15190@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes: >Wouldn't depth-by-indentation make include files a nightmare? Yes. But I haven't yet found a use for include files which isn't handled better by some other mechanism (i.e. separate specification and body, or some other export/import system). There probably is some use, but I can't think of one offhand. Why don't all languages provide an export/import, ala Ada, Modula-2, or most (non-standard) Pascal implementations? Inertia? Anton, hoping for the perfect development environment within the next century :-) +---------------------------+------------------+-------------+ | Anton Rang (grad student) | rang@cs.wisc.edu | UW--Madison | +---------------------------+------------------+-------------+