On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 07:40:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/29/2022 11:13 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
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Not the same as C doing the importing of C code.
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Going around the horn, really doing it the hard way. Besides,
writing a paper is not the same thing as implementing a working
system. There were many proposals about adding modules to C,
they just all went nowhere.
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Yee gods, doing it with a database representation is certainly
going around the horn.
Note that neither D nor ImportC rely on some database or symbol
table file.
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Precompiled headers for C and C++ were certainly a module-like
system (I know because I wrote one), but they are horrific
kludges.
I guess going around the horn is a synonym for lets pretend there
wasn't prior art and keep arguing D did it first, as usual.
