The goal of having a human-written interface is to give the programmer the
opportunity to say (and document) just what the interface of a module is. I
think of this as analogous to specifying a type signature for a function...
often illuminating, but should not be obligatory. Especially when
Simon and John,
In practice, when do you want an interface other than the automatically
generated one? In practice, except in the case of mutual recursive
modules, do you ever need to modify an interface in order to get a program
to do what you want? In theory, to what extent can the
Hi all,
as I am also a former sufferer from Modula-2's module system I'd like
to support Manuel's opinion. But we do not need to reinvent the
wheel, Wirth already corrected some problems with modules in M-2 in
the design of Oberon! The idea is that each module is just *one* piece
of human
