Dear All, In the words of Jean-Luc Picard, "I will make it so.... "
Paul On 24 July 2015 at 10:08, Damian Rouson <dam...@sourceryinstitute.org> wrote: > I love this idea and had similar thoughts as well. > > :D > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 24, 2015, at 1:06 AM, Paul Richard Thomas >> <paul.richard.tho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear Mikael, >> >> It had crossed my mind also that a .mod and a .smod file could be >> written. Normally, the .smod files are produced by the submodules >> themselves, so that their descendants can pick up the symbols that >> they generate. There is no reason at all why this could not be >> implemented; early on in the development I did just this, although I >> think that it would now be easier to modify this patch. >> >> One huge advantage of proceeding in this way is that any resulting >> library can be distributed with the .mod file alone so that the >> private entities are never exposed. The penalty is that a second file >> is output. >> >> With best regards >> >> Paul >> >>> On 23 July 2015 at 17:42, Mikael Morin <mikael.mo...@sfr.fr> wrote: >>> Hello Paul, >>> >>> Le 23/07/2015 09:46, Paul Richard Thomas a écrit : >>>> >>>> Since all the private entities in a module have to be transmitted to >>>> their descendant submodules, whilst keeping them hidden from normal >>>> use statements, I have chosen to write the module file as usual and >>>> add a second part that contains the private entities. This latter is >>>> only read when processing submodule statements. >>> why not write them to the/a .smod file? It was its primary purpose, wasn't >>> it? >>> [Sorry, I followed the submodule stuff very remotely]. >>> >>> It's probably bad practice to put private entities in module files, at least >>> now that submodules are supported. Nevertheless with your change, >>> modifications made to private entities produce recompilation cascades, even >>> though the public interfaces are left unchanged. >>> >>> Mikael >> >> >> >> -- >> Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's >> too dark to read. >> >> Groucho Marx -- Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx
