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From: davis@ilog.fr (Harley Davis)
Subject: Re: Has C++ had its day?
In-Reply-To: dewar@cs.nyu.edu's message of 22 Jun 1995 21:09:41 -0400
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In article <dewar.803869433@gnat> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

   "Indeed.  I suppose this is one of the reasons why Robert Dewar
   isn't exactly enamoured of the idea of "incremental"
   recompilation..."

   Actually there is some discussion of whether you have to deal with
   this in an incremental compilation scheme. Obviously to be
   absolutely correct, you should, but one approach is simply to
   ignore this fine point, and let the user go ahead and create an
   illegal program temporarily, then set things up so that this
   illegality is discovered later in the build process.

I guess the question would be "how much later?"  If it's right before
the final build, that's way too late.

-- Harley Davis
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