Achilleas Margaritis <axil...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: >> Achilleas Margaritis <axil...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> How much do you spend in maintaining headers? answers welcomed from >>> other members as well. >> >> In C++, I personally spend very little time doing what I would describe >> as "maintaining headers." I write class definitions in .h files and >> function implementations in .cc files. The only data which appears in >> both places is the function signature. Yes, it would be slightly nice >> if I didn't have to write that twice. But it's a minor issue. > > Don't you ever had to modify the classes after you've written them? I > am surprised, because I have talked to other developers and they have > too said that it would be nice if headers could be avoided.
Of course I often have to modify classes after I've written them, but I don't see what that has to do with your argument. That is just programming. It would be the same work whether the class was defined in a header file or in a regular soruce file. > My proposal does not change the language in any way, it only is a > copy-and-paste job. No, your proposal does change the language. A program written using your proposed pragma would not work with a compiler which does not understand your pragma. Ian
