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- From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
- Subject: Re: Questions on libraries and conformance
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.210001.4730@enea.se>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 21:00:01 GMT
- References: <MATTHEW.92Aug4130028@matthew.ntl02.decnet.nokia.fi> <1992Aug9.153142.24056@enea.se> <1992Aug11.023255.17884@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Glenn Maughan (gmaughan@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au) writes in response to me:
- >Yes but if you needed to inherit an existing class to reuse its functionallity
- >You would generally need to know how it the class works. That means at least
- >browsing the source code.
-
- Please notice that there is no contradiction with what I wrote. Just
- because you ship the source code with the library, doesn't mean that
- the compiler should compile all over and over again. Or do global
- reference analysis. That is, remove the source code and the compiler
- won't notice. Only the programmer but that's another issue.
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- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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