Re: Packages

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CChris wrote:

> But certainly not the last:
> 1/ will full duplex client-server relationship keep working between a main
> library
> file and a file it (recursively) includes? It should, otherwise code breaking
> may not be marginal.

Can you give an example? 

> 2/ If a global symbol is privately used in a library, yet is global because
> it is referred to in several files, will the main application keep seeing it?
> It shouldn't; This is one of the problems to solve.
> 3/ If case 2/ is solved, and the application includes some other file after
> the main library file considered in 1/, will that file see the symbol referred
> in 2/? It shouldn't; this is one of the problems to solve.

But why? This change has nothing to do with cases 2 and 3. I thought that Matt
had made that clear.

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"Any programming problem can be solved by adding a level of indirection."
--anonymous
"Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection."
--M. Haertel
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare
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