Re: A c++ puzzle for you gurus

["Miguel Sousa Filipe" <miguel.filipe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 12/18/06, walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> Peter Avalos wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 07:48:38AM -0800, walt wrote:
> ..
> >> My bonehead compiler question is:  how did we get from 'from syncres.cc' to
> >> 'mtasker.cc' with no intermediate steps?
>
> > ...mtasker.hh which includes mtasker.cc. ...
>
> The source of my confusion becomes clear!  I don't recall ever seeing
> a header file 'include' a source file before, so I didn't even look at
> the code. <hangs head in shame>
>
> Is this practice specific to c++ ?  (If you know of any examples of c
> code doing this, please point them out.  Thanks!)

This is not specific to c++, its more specific of aplications that
have the source code badly organized, and with twised file dependency
chains.
So, it's possible to have "bad" organization like that in C too.



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Miguel Sousa Filipe