Projects for beginners

[Geert Bosch]

On Fri, 2 Feb 01 11:02:53 EST, Richard Kenner wrote:
  The first is that we can think of a header file as a specification of some
  facility.  That facility depends one some other facilities in a way that we
  don't need the user of a facility to bother with.  This is very much like the
  concept of packages in Ada and similar languages.
  
  If we do this then indeed each such file needs "guards".  [...]
  I think that would be a major improvement in the compiler, but, as I said,
  it a very large job and one that actually requires quite a bit of
  detailed knowlege of the compiler.

I agree that in the long term this is the best way to go. Therefore we
should start moving in that direction now, and not wait until the forest
of header files is even more complex than it is now. As Richard says, this
will be a large amount of work, but it will be even more work if we don't
start now.

  -Geert