Adding Modules to C in 10 Lines of Code

[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 07:40:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/29/2022 11:13 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
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> Not the same as C doing the importing of C code.
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> Going around the horn, really doing it the hard way. Besides, 
> writing a paper is not the same thing as implementing a working 
> system. There were many proposals about adding modules to C, 
> they just all went nowhere.
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> Yee gods, doing it with a database representation is certainly 
> going around the horn.
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> Note that neither D nor ImportC rely on some database or symbol 
> table file.
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> Precompiled headers for C and C++ were certainly a module-like 
> system (I know because I wrote one), but they are horrific 
> kludges.

I guess going around the horn is a synonym for lets pretend there 
wasn't prior art and keep arguing D did it first, as usual.