Invisible wrote:
>> Right. Not unusual in compiled languages, that.
> Indeed.

OK, all the stuff you described is pretty much SOP for compiled modular 
languages (for everything but C++, that is).

Ada, for example, won't even let you link against the .o file if you 
compiled against a corresponding .hi file that was compiled more 
recently than the .o file.  So you can't even mix-and-match 
representations incorrectly.

> Um... I'm not sure exactly which statement you're trying to make.

I meant that making it such that you can "hide" the representation from 
the programmer and do all that fancy stuff, but then require the source 
files of the declarations (a la C++) is a pretty easy thing to do. Much 
harder to allow (say) inlining of already-compiled code.

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