LU-CS-TR:92-102 Abstract

A module concept for nested classes

LU-CS-TR:92-102

B. Magnusson

Also published in: Proceedings of the 18th Simula User's Conference, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 1992. Association of Simula Users.

Abstract

The ability to separately compile parts of programs is important for many practical reasons like reuse and sharing of libraries. Current Simula provides mechanisms for separate compilation of classes and procedures like many other langauges. Growing applications with mutually dependent classes and nested class definitions do, however, call for mechanisms for partitioning programs into smaller compilation units than is possible today. In this paper we describe some advances in this direction.