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- From: "Kevin O'Donovan" <abaddon@nasoftwr.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Gem List
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 10:40:14 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9407281235.A14224-0100000@grad> from "Timothy Miller" at Jul 28, 94 12:20:36 pm
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- Timothy Miller said:
- > Well, I break my library down into a few seperate .C files and the
- > programmer can pick which ones he wants. I'm sure that's what most of
- > us do.
- >
- That doesn't sound too cool. A linker links everything in a .o file into
- your program if one of the functions (or variables) in that .o file is
- referenced. For this reason each .o file should be as small as possible,
- and quite possibly only contain one public entry point, or at least a group
- of entry points that are necessarily going to be used together, eg
- window_open and window_close.
-
- > KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
- >
- This is fine for the naive user, but there are such things as 'power' users
- out there. To reiterate what has been said before, an unconfigured program
- should behave like plain Gem. The user only has to configure if he wants
- too. I can't see a problem with that.
-
- > would have no problem with it. But to assign something as dangerous as
- > "Select-All" to it is pure lunacy!
- >
- Why should select all be a dangerous function? Surely all it does is select
- everything. If the program in question then lets you perform a non-recoverable
- operation on every object then the program is flawed.
-
- Kev
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