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

> 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.

Indeed, in that case it would be possible to avoid the recompilation in Nice 
too. You can view this as an optimization that is not done yet.

Daniel


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