Re: Header files

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From: Loren Rosen
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1989 19:20

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You can do more or less what you want in Ada, through the use of separate
subprograms.  Also, many of the production Ada compilers will remove
code for unused subprograms from the executable.

Header files have drawbacks of their own.  It's all too easy in a large
system to try to load two things that have the same name, or leave something
out.  You don't find out until the loader complains about multiply-defined
or undefined names.

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