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From: codepoet <[e-mail]>
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Subject: extern Login *lgn;   is this all there is?
Date: 18 Jan 1996 03:11:00 GMT
Organization: Nation BBS Systems
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I am writeing a BBS. It is compiled with Turbo C++ 3.0. The first version
of this BBS was written in standard C with the same compiler. In this new
version, I wanted to use OOP. My first module was BWork, a binary record
keeper. It basically loads and saves binary records, like my other module
UserRec. I use BWork in UserRec, since User Records are Binary records and
need to be saved and loaded from disk. At the top of UserRec I declare
BWork as an extern, because BWork is used in many other modules, and not
just UserRec. There are about 50 other modules also, like Login, Mail,
MesgBase (which is derrived from Mail f coarse), etc. At the top of all of
thoese modules, I must include my extern statements to include all other
modules that this module will require. After a while I feel as if I am
violating some C++ rule of ethics because almost every module needs
another (with maybe the exception of Tyme and Dayt). My question is this:
Is it accepted practice to have a list of 10 or more extern's in each
module? Or is it true that somewhere down the line, my Object methodology
got bumbled and there *really* is a way to have modules with no module
needing another module. Basically, if I wanted to let someone else use my
userRec class, they would be stuck with 10 other classs! What can be done?