On Apr 1, 2006, at 12:27 AM, Keith Hutchison wrote:
I'm looking for a summary for the benefits of soft declares in RB 2005/2006.
You can find one in chapter 2 of my book on declares <http:// www.declareSub.com/>. Here is a summary of the summary:
Functions not actually in libraries result in exceptions at runtime instead of a launch failure or mysterious abrupt exit.
MacOS -- PEF apps can call Mach-O frameworks, thus making it possible for Joe Strout to continue to compile to his favorite executable format. It is now possible to write Carbon apps that run in both MacOS X and MacOS 9 in all cases.
Windows -- can call both unicode and ANSI versions of functions depending on platform in one app, instead of having to build a version for each Windows variety.
Linux -- soft declares can resolve loader scripts, thus giving apps a better shot at working under a Linux install other than your own.
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