Re: Re: software design clarification

Markus Elfring wrote:
> 
>>> I suggest to derive "CompilationUnit" from "SourceFile".
>>>     
>>
>> Why ? (Hint: It would be highly beneficial if you would adorn your
>> various
>> suggestions with rationale or some other form of reasoning providing
>> me clues
>> as to what you have in mind. I don't like second-guessing.)
> 
> I imagine that a compilation unit will be connected to a specific
> programming language or conversion/transformation tool while a source
> file will be the lowest base class.

Right. SourceFile already contains various annotations, such as language
(C++, C, ...), documentation format (javadoc, ReST, ...), as well as
various representations of the actual source it contains.

I don't see the need to derive from it, though.

Regards,
		Stefan

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