From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-11-21T04:55:18+09:00
Subject: Re: "stereotyping" (was: Re: Strong Typing (Re: Managing metadata about attribute types)

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 04:24:59 +0900, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:15 am, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> Ever used RogueWave tools.h++? It's not really well documented,
>> and I've had to open its source more than once in my career. This
>> is an *expensive* commercial package. I don't know what platform
>> you typically develop for, but this is *common* in Unix
>> development.
> Never heard of it, but I assume it's a C++ library? Do the type
> declarations help you figure it out at all? Do you open the .h
> files usually or go straight to analyzing the .cpp source code
> itself and look right past the function declarations?

That you haven't heard of it strongly suggests you don't do Unix
development, but I could be wrong. (RogueWave tools.h++ has been at
two different Unix development sites that I've worked in since the
mid 90s.)

I view little difference between opening a .h file and opening a
.cpp file -- in Ruby, they're one and the same. I start with the .h
file, but move to the .cpp file as necessary.

-austin
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software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.11.20
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