November 30, 2010 Re: Is there a way to forward-declare interfaces to avoid module interdependencies? | ||||
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Posted in reply to Steven Schveighoffer | On 2010-11-29 16:39, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:58:42 -0500, Per Ångström <d-news@autark.se> wrote: >> However, I wish the situation could be detected at compile-time. > > It could only be detected at link-time, and the linker doesn't do any > custom processing, it just links. Actually, I should have written "without running the program", be it compile-time or link-time. > But in any case, I still don't understand why you want to avoid > interdependencies. D is supposed to handle them well. It's something I caught from reading Lakos's _Large Scale C++ Software Design_ back in the 90's. Of course, D's module system alleviates a lot of the problems with interdependencies in C++, but still, highly interdependent systems are harder to test and less easy to change. I don't think D has changed the game completely, making interdependencies largely a non-issue. -- Cheers, Per Å. |
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