On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:03:05 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Walter Bright wrote: >> Jarrett Billingsley wrote: >>> See it's funny, since in the other post, you said that using an >>> autogenerated header file is semantically indistinguishable from >>> compiling it to a metadata file. And here you're pointing out an >>> obvious shortcoming! >> >> You can make hand-generated ones, too. The idea of keeping private >> imports private is to explicitly *avoid* dependencies on knowing the >> contents. It's a principle of encapsulization. > > encapsuli...what? I definitedly need to conceptify that one :o).
I think the word Walter was reaching for was "encapsulement" ;-) -- Derek Parnell Melbourne, Australia skype: derek.j.parnell
