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Re: Private and public code

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On 02/13/17 09:38 AM, GOTHIER Nathan wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:10:36 +1300
> Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 02/13/17 08:03 AM, GOTHIER Nathan wrote:
>>
>> Please limit your line length!
>>
>>> Hello everybody,
>>>
>>> After reading many headers in different C projects, I realized the
>>> fact that there are many private code (macros, typedefs, ...)
>>> included in headers that makes difficult to distinguish what is
>>> useful for the end user.
>>>
>>> Since I consider headers as some kind of minimal documentation for C
>>> programmers, I put every private code in source files and only public
>>> code in headers. Although it could lead sometimes to put all
>>> unrelated private code in one common source file with an include
>>> guard.
>>>
>>> What do you think about this practice?
>>
>> Why don't you just use a private header?
>
> Do you compile private headers? For me appending "private" to
> "header"  looks weird... since we usually make public access to private
 > code with headers. ;-)

Please limit your line length!

Private headers aren't directly compiled, they are included.

-- 
Ian

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Private and public code GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-02-12 20:03 +0100
  Re: Private and public code Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-02-13 08:10 +1300
    Re: Private and public code GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-02-12 21:38 +0100
      Re: Private and public code Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-02-12 20:58 +0000
        Re: Private and public code GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-02-12 23:06 +0100
          Re: Private and public code Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-02-13 06:00 +0000
            Re: Private and public code GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-02-13 08:31 +0100
      Re: Private and public code Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-02-13 19:07 +1300
        Re: Private and public code GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-02-13 09:14 +0100

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