Re: does nice have separate compilation, or does it effectively "compile" a whole program at a time?

--- Daniel Bonniot <[email protected]> wrote:
> The interesect package imports rectangle, and you modified the
> rectangle package. Therefore, intersect also need to be rechecked. 

> Separate compilation guarantees you the opposite: if intersect
> changes, rectangle does not have to be recompiled.

iirc with something like Oberon we'd only need to recompile intersect
if the signatures exported from rectangle had changed - changing the
internals of a method implementation wouldn't ripple.


> PS: could you forward my answer (not necessarily literally) to the
> newsgroup?

Sure, done.


		
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