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Compilable code
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 08:58 AM EDT
"Judge: Submit to me by late tonight the 3 biggest areas of heartburn.
Judge: I want a definition of the compilable code, declaration, name.
Judge: Here is why I bring it up: English is not a part of the SSO.
Judge: What [ do we call ] the part that gets compiled? Code? Compilable code?
"Package" doesn't get us where we need to be."


Source code, nothing else, source code.

API= Source code + definition (description) +name/signature/declaration

And all that's in the SSO is the names, or at least the arrangement therein.

And someone already lost the big fat manual.

And methinks Judge Alsup knows full well what a declaration is.

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  • Compilable code - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 12:11 PM EDT
Good API Analogy...
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 09:07 AM EDT
Bad analogy. You are confusing a protocol with an API. The focusing point of
an API are the call interfaces with which program parts are connected, and your
analogy takes those for granted and promotes a secondary element to principal
status.

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