Library standardization

[Michel Fortin]

On 2008-04-19 19:01:09 -0400, Lars Noschinski 
<lars-2008-1 at usenet.noschinski.de> said:

> * Janice Caron <caron800 at googlemail.com> [08-04-19 19:15]:
>> OK, so you're basically saying you want D to have header files, like
>> C. Fair enough. The prospect doesn't thrill me, but I would be
>> intrigued to know how other many people want this.
> 
> How does Java handle this case? They also do not have header files there.

In Java, if I'm not mistaken, you don't need the source of a class to 
use it in your code. The compiled class file contains everything the 
compiler needs to know about a class and the signature of the methods 
in it. Inlining is done by the virtual machine at runtime.

If you change the implementation of a class, because no inlining is 
performed at compile-time it doesn't matter which version you compiled 
against, as long as the API is compatible between the two versions.

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