FWIW I'd suggest some of you investigate how the Perl folks have handled
this, since they've gone through some of the same issues. While it is for
example possible to include a file into a perl program just like we do with
#include, they have another concept called 'modules' which covers some of the
issues here, plus some others that we haven't covered yet (e.g. modules can
be self-documenting). See:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_module.
  http://stein.cshl.org/genome_informatics/chervitz/perl-modules/

-- Chris

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