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John Yeung wrote:
... I've always gotten an icky feeling with /copy, but I suppose
it's no worse than #include-ing C header files. (Not that I'm too
happy with #include.)
Nothing to feel "icky" about. Including things by reference has been a
part of C from day one. It's also inherent to the old McGill University
MUSIC operating system for S/370 and compatible mainframes, and
therefore, on that platform, part of most supported languages (with the
possible exception of VS-BASIC).
It is simply a way to stick things that are widely used in one place,
where every program that uses them gets the same version of it, so that
it's consistent with every other program that uses them, and so that if
they need to change, you only have to *code* the change once, and then
*recompile* everything that uses it, which reduces the chance that you
might screw something up.
Around here, we don't use them nearly as much as we ought to.
--
JHHL
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