Hi
I currently maintain two libraries, TagSoup which defines the Tag data
type, and BinaryDefer, which defines the BinaryDefer class. If I
wanted to include an instance for BinaryDefer Tag, where would I put
it?
Putting it in either library introduces an artificial dependency on
the other.
I've had a similar question, which I think boiled down to a
compilation issue. Consider packages A and B that can be defined
independently. But, just as Neil pointed out, perhaps A and B could
also interact beyond their basic definition.
My naive idea is that A would compile the simple
Taking a lesson from relational databases, I'd put it in 5-normal form:
a separate module importing its two dependencies.
Don't forget the 2nd law of thermodynamics: no 4-line file will stay 4
lines long after repeated code iterations. You might as well plan for
the inevitable.
If it's too
Hi Dan,
Don't forget the 2nd law of thermodynamics: no 4-line file will stay 4
lines long after repeated code iterations. You might as well plan for
the inevitable.
If this library is for the extra interactions available when using a
libary with 2 classes (thats all BinaryDefer is likely to
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:40:33 +0100
Neil Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it's too annoying to wait for that inevitability, try commenting
the hell out of it until it has a respectable number of lines.
Comments are for people who can't sense what their code does from the
indentation
