Re: Header files

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From: Bruce Albrecht
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1989 18:38

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In article <24955@louie.udel.EDU>, new@udel.EDU writes:
> One thing I have always liked about the C language was the separation
> between the "header" files (.h) and the "code" files (.c).  ...
> Does anyone know of any relatively popular languages that allow this
> sort of separation other than C and C++?  If not, why not? Discussion?

I will probably have several people tell me I'm wrong about this, but 
#include is a directive for the c pre-processor and not part of the language
itself.  The implication of this, therefore, is that if you have a preprocessor
for your favorite language, you can do this with any language that supports
separately compiled modules.

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From: bga@odeon.ahse.cdc.com (Bruce Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Header files
Summary: #include is not really a language construct
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Date: 28 Sep 89 18:38:41 GMT
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